1. Intelligence often comes in the way of freedom.
Answers
Answer:
Freedom is precious
Explanation:
Not only is it essential for the full expression and development of our individual creative potential, it is essential for the full expression and development of our potential as a team, a community, a nation, and a species. Reinforcing freedom as a principle or norm that shapes our behaviour in relation to others, and ourselves, is fundamental. As argued by Philip Pettit, exercising freedom as non-domination allows us to adopt a truly democratic stance in relation to others and is essential in our efforts to redesign our environment and our relationship with the environment (Pettit, 2014). The requirement to collectively and continuously redesign our environment and our relationship with the environment is ever-present and shapes our best efforts in the areas of education, science, technology, and governance. However, much of our social activity in education, science, technology, and governance is not conducive to freedom as non-domination. We are rarely free from domination. Our approach to education often constrains the freedom of expression, creativity, critical thinking, and collaborative capacity of the developing person; the practice of science often reinforces dominance hierarchies, a separation of academic disciplines, and language barriers that inhibit our capacity for synthesis and collective approaches to problem solving; technologists often develop technologies that disempower creativity, critical thinking, damage well-being, and distance people from deep forms of social and emotional engagement; democratic governments largely reinforce a model of representative democracy that fails to empower deep and meaningful co-creation, collaboration, and engagement of citizens in the policy and planning activities that shape their world. Freedom as non-domination needs to be won, and this, I believe, is a major task of cultural evolution.