To Kill A Mockingbird In Relation To Freedom

Freedom

In this essay I will discuss the picture of a bird in a cage in relation to freedom. The question I asked myself when I first saw the picture was: ''Are we determined or we have free will?''. I argue that things in our lives are determined biologically and phisicaly, but we also develop our identity and are able to decide upon our actions. I will also answer this with approaches of two philosophers with different perceptions of freedom. One of them is Holbach which is a hard determinist and the other one is Jean-Paul Sartre who an existentialist and argues that humans are radically free. Througouht my essay I will expand to what I said in my thesis and give arguments to support it, explains how the two philoshopers percieve freedom,

But what would Holbach who was born in Germany in 18th century see and think of it? His general idea is that man's actions are never free. They are always a concequence of the recieved ideas which he has formed of his opinions, streghtened by education and daily experience.. He is determined by the laws of nature and even when he thinks that he has free will, it is only because some new idea or cause give him a new impulse and determine his will in another way. That is exactly what the open door represents, the illusion of free will. Even though it is open, the bird is still in the cage and the free will of the bird is nothing more than natural phenomena controlled by the forces of nature

We can conclude how Holbach things that everything is determined by the laws of nature, we are not able to choose our own actions and there is only the illusion of free will. Whereas Sartre argues that a man is nothing else but what he makes of himself and is able to act freely, therefore he is free. But what they have in common is that both of them are atheists, existentialists and argue that existence preeceds