It's also an umbrella term for the comfort that comes with the ability to bend much of your immediate world to your will, freedom from most ordinary fears and problems.
Speaking ahead of a talk at the British Science Festival in Birmingham tomorrow, he said that the traditional definition of a soul was to have intelligence, free will, freedom to love and freedom to make decisions.
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For example, in ordinary usage something (e.g., remaining seated) is said to be "necessary to us…when we can't help it, let us do what we will" (Freedom of the Will, 1754; Edwards 1957–, vol. 1, 150).
Again, 'freedom' or 'liberty' in common speech refer only to "that power and opportunity for one to do and conduct as he will, or according to his choice," and contains no reference to the "cause or original" of the act of will (Freedom of the Will, 1754; Edwards 1957 vol. 1, 163 64).
After all, he says, if he doesn't speak out, who will? "Freedom is a pleasure, and every pleasure has a cost," he said calmly.
