In "Being and Nothingness," Sartre argues that nothing can interfere with the choices we make in our lives; each choice is thereby essentially arbitrary. Are we really condemned to be free?|||Of course, whether you like it or not. The problem's that we rarely use our freedom for real. Consider how many times a day you do really 'arbitrary' things. You voluntarily eat chocolate - but isn't it the desire that's making you eat it? You go to work - do you really do it voluntarily? Real, pure freedom means you do things without any sense - because if there's a reason for doing them this very reason is enslaving you and making you do things you wouldn't do otherwise! That's why freedom is so unusual while being the most natural human trait.
Good luck!|||Yes he is 100% right. He has the answer!
Freedom either exists or it does not.
How it exists is beyound control as much as time itself.|||Hello:
Is that what he thinks? Really there are a multitude of influences both physical (from w/in the self) as well as from "the other(s)". Each of these can only have as much influence on our choices as we allow it to and so in this they essentially do not interfere...it is only ourselves that allow them to interfere.
As for the arbitrarily of our choices...we are the one that give meaning to the arbitrary of life with out focus and our choices.
In the end, yes we are free. There is a Rush song called Free Will: "if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice".
That pretty much says it there.
I hope this helps
Rev Phil
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