Balanced Concept of Freedom

1. Balanced Concept of Freedom The idea of balanced concept of freedom is that to be morally responsible for something, an individual had to have some amount of freedom, at some suitable time prior to the action to the action or outcome for which he is responsible.

2. The sense of freedom- whatever it amounts to- is what it is known as “free-will”. • Free-will is understood as the control condition for moral responsibility is to make a serious blunder in conceptual and clear thinking. It is clearly a perquisite for responsibility. • Free choice is another necessary condition for moral responsibility. It means that persons can choose one alternative over another, one course of action over another. The most basic freedom is the freedom to shift the attention, a person should atleast have the freedom to change the attention and change the way of thinking.