Are We Really Free? Is a fourteen years old boy really free to choose to study medicine rather than law? In a way, he is. In another sense, if he does not know well the difference between the two types of study, as well as the professions to which law and medicine respectively give access it is difficult to define him as being truly free. Let’s change example. Who is free to choose to play Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin or Honky Tonk Train Blues by Keith Emerson? We are all more or less free to put our hands on the keyboard of a piano and move them in some way. But what about playing those songs? The concept of freedom is too often taken for granted, as if freedom was something we already possess and not something to be achieved through commitment, study and virtue.
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