Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom.
Benjamin Franklin Picks up on Franklin's attention to the multiplicity of interests among different people, to suggest that a person also has a multiplicity of genuine interests and characters. Nevertheless, much of his alternate list of virtues turns out not to be so bad, except Justice and Moderation, which as described imply that there is no outside source for morality. On chastity's absent motives, cf. Aristotle on friendship. Famous for Letters from an American Farmer .