Freedom always involves social responsibility. It occurs within the context of a perception of limits. The self always exists in a world. The capacity to confront limits is part of freeedom. Subordination strikes at the core of human dignity of the master as well as the slave.
Slavery destroys the freedom of both.
We too easily think that freedom comes as our birthright and forget that we each must rediscover it for ourselves. 5. The purpose of psychotherapy, suggests May, is to set people free. Freedom is the capacity to pause in the face of stimuli from many directions at once and, in this pause, to throw one's weight toward this response rather than that one. Hating or resenting can serve as a way to avoid psychological or spiritual suicide by preserving some dignity, some feeling of one's own identity. Innocence os of two types.