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- From: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.195430.39336@news.th-darmstadt.de>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:54:30 GMT
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- In article <3087@ulysse.enst.fr>, ciaran@ulysse.enst.fr (Ciaran O'Donnell) writes:
- >
- > Rather than get into a long debate about freedom, I will define it.
- > PLEASE ACCEPT THE DEFINITION JUST LONG ENOUGH TO READ THE POST.
- >
- > I define freedom as THE ABILITY TO DO GOOD.
-
- I've accepted it as long as I've read the post.
-
- But now -- you're simply not right in your definition. As everybody
- knows (hopefully ;-), freedom's just another word for nothing left to
- loose.
-
- Ha, we should start discussing about the dialectic of freedom. The
- more you want, the more you loose it itself. Who has read Adorno's and
- Horkheimer's ``Dialectic of enlightenment''?
-
- --
- Joachim
-