4/19/12

In our reading we are suppose to be answering the question what is means for us as humans to be "radically free". In Platos beliefs we are rational creatures that submit into our emotional feelings and when we do that we are acting more like animals. But the difference between us as conscious beings and objects is that we have intentions within our actions, objects don't. We are aware that there are things other than ourselves in the world, but most adolescences don't see it that way. When we are  younger we tend to have an egocentric predicament, meaning that we think that we are the center of the universe and that we are not intertwined in the world. When we get older we learn that we are embedded into the world and that we are very dependent on our surroundings. To be a conscious being you need to have the realization that there are things outside yourself that you didn't create.