Wertheimer's Definition of Freedom

Freedom is the ability to react appropriately to any given circumstance; lack of freedom is blockage of this ability.

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Max Wertheimer
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Psychologist whose story 'A Story of Three Days' defines freedom as the ability to react appropriately.

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freedomconcept0.772
The capacity to create wholeness and do what is right; enabled by morphogenetic, whole-seeking processes.
What is freedom? What is true freedom?question0.734
Wertheimer's protagonist's quest.
freedom of the spiritconcept0.719
Inner freedom or the sense of life each person has, nourished by living structure.
Lack of freedom is the loss, from whatever source internal or external, of the ability to act appropriately.claim0.712
Wertheimer's definition applied to environment.
Free Will as Robustness and Stabilityconcept0.709
Freedom reconceived: agent's ability to resist lock-in and maintain multiple attractor basins; novelty and creativity emerge from stable far-from-equilibrium dynamics.
Agency, Freedom, and Individualityconcept0.704
lack of freedom as blockage of appropriate reactionconcept0.696
Anything causing an inability to react appropriately, whether internal or external.
Freedom in processconcept0.696
The uncensored, unhampered quality of actions that allows life to emerge, free from over-control and image-consciousness.