Chapter Summary Of The Philosophy Of Freedom
Olin D. Wannamaker
Chapter 10 Monism And The Philosophy Of Inner Freedom
The naive human being seeks to act morally in response to motives derived from without --from other persons or a Higher Being in whom he believes. At his highest level, the source of his motives is an inner voice. At this level, his conception of moral behavior becomes identical with that of Metaphysical Realism, which conceives of man's volition as impelled from an unknown source outside himself. Both conceptions preclude the possibility of inner freedom. But the form of Monism presented in this book renders wholly tenable the conception of man as a potentially free spirit, willing partly in freedom during the lower stages of his development and capable of attaining ultimately to complete self-determinism on the basis of his own moral intuitions.
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