{"id":1754,"date":"2007-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2007\/01\/12\/how-free-are-we\/"},"modified":"2007-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"how-free-are-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2007\/01\/12\/how-free-are-we\/","title":{"rendered":"How Free are We?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Territory: \u2217 For my Project territory I chose to look at the work of Derren Brown, I chose this territory because I was interested in exploring the idea of free will, and the influence of others over our free will. I considered that Derren Brown is a perfect example of another human being having a strong influence over someone else\u2019s actions. Concepts: \u2217 The concepts I chose to explore were the influence of other people on our free will and consequently how much freedom do we actually have? Philosophical ideas and Objectives: \u2217 My exploration of the concept of freedom lead me to examine the work of various philosophers including Kant, using in particular the \u2018Categorical Imperative\u2019 taken from his Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals. \u2217 After this examination I hope to be able to conclude whether or not we free and consequently responsible for our actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elanor Harris, 2007, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[491,22,128],"tags":[246,3,37],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-491","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-freedom","tag-kant","tag-morality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}