%0 Journal Article
%T Freedom: The Secret of Normativity
%A Yafeng Dang
%J Sociology Mind
%P 1-14
%@ 2160-0848
%D 2024
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/sm.2024.141001
%X Norms, more specifically, human responsibilities, are
the premise of under</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">standing freedom, and in turn</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">, </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">we can</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">reveal the secret of normativity</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">by understanding freedom.
In</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">traditional
freedom, normativity refers to the freedom of choice and the freedom of the
power of action. The former is free will, and the latter is two opposite
orientations for social conditions. The freedom of laissez-faire is based on
the premise of canceling social conditions, and the absolute spiritual freedom
is aimed at maintaining social conditions. The traditional</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">freedom regards freedom as
something preexistent, so it is a metaphysical normativity. In Dewey¡¯s freedom,
normativity refers to the internal correlations between choice and the two
freedoms of action power, which is </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">manifested
as rational choice</span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">,</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> that is, examining its social conditions while
retaining the choice. The rational choice embodies the principle of indivi</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">duality, which expresses the reality of the existent structure that the
actor is different from other actors by their actions. Dewey¡¯s freedom is a
factual de</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">scription of the internal relation
and structure of freedom, so it is a naive</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> nor</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">mativity. In universal freedom, normativity means the logical unity of
un</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">iver</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">sality and historicity</span></span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">of freedom. The universal significance of Aristotle¡¯s</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> practical starting</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">point
and the</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span><span
%K Free Will
%K Power of Action
%K Individuality
%K Universal Freedom
%K Normativity
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