Lea Ypi

And that's actually the one that my grandmother has in the first book.

but that she continues to have also in the second book, and that's the idea of freedom that I subscribe to, which is that actually freedom is really something that is always there with us, and it's the freedom that is revealed to us in the moment of moral responsibility.

So it's freedom connected to moral agency, to choices made within certain constraints that are rational constraints on choice, and as reflections of a certain way of thinking about the human will.

Can you give us an example?

Så jeg tror at hvis du spør deg selv, for eksempel, hva er distinsjonen mellom en menneske og en animal?

Og du sier at de to er naturlige spesieser, så vi vil spise, drinke, sove, relaxere, og vi har nødvendige naturlige funksjoner.

Men da har menneskene noe annet.

De har noe vi kaller refleksivitet.

Så de kan også spørre seg selv, hva er poenget?

of eating and drinking and sleeping.

And because they can ask this question, they can also decide not to follow these instincts, not to follow these inclinations.

So a human being, unlike an animal, when they're hungry, they eat.

A human being can decide, for example, to go on a hunger strike.

So not to eat in the name of a higher principle.

So this is something that's a background condition under which we make choices.

And there is a moral structure to what underpins those choices.

And I think this is where we really see this moral freedom.

This is where we see our capacity to do this is what reveals to us that we are ultimately not completely dependent on nature.

That we have this capacity to stand back from this natural condition.

instinkts and inclinations and to ask ourselves is this reasonable or is it not reasonable?