Some Sources of Romanticism: 4 – The Restrained Romantics
Isaiah Berlin
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Ficter's Theology of Freedom
The third thinker about whom i must say a word is the thinker fishte, who's also, to some degree, added to this particular notion of freedom. Let me read you something by him, and you will see the kind of thing at the mere mention of the name freedom says, fister, my heart opens and flowers, while at the word necessity it contracts painfully. And indeed, he said, a man's philosophy is as his nature, not his nature as his philosophy. Our lives do not depend upon contemplative knowledge. Life doesn't begin with disinterested contemplation of nature or of objects. Life begins with action. We have freedom again.
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