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Very good food for thought, really helps one to better organize one’s worldview. Thanks for this!

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“One of the important central concepts in Ivan Ilyin's thinking is the definition of freedom. The word ‘freedom’ in the West has been butchered to the point where it now almost means the opposite of what it originally was meant to be. The word that we should use I think that would make better sense is ‘autonomy’ rather than freedom. In the West there's a tendency to believe that freedom refers to the ability to do whatever you want, that there is a lack of external restraint and so it comes down to being able to act arbitrarily, having no reason to act the way you do, because there can be no causality-[…] it's freedom to do whatever you want, and that's somehow a good thing.”

- Matthew Raphael Johnson on discussing Ivan Ilyin (at 21:23):

• Russian Nationalist Philosopher - Ivan Ilyin - Matthew Raphael Johnson

https://odysee.com/@InvincibleOrthodoxy:3/russian-nationalist-philosopher-ivan:c

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Very illustrative!!

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