Existential Therapy Group Counseling - Session 2

[kingofaikido]

If we buy the free-will argument, which, incidentally isn't exactly existentialist, then one has also the free-will to protest, get active, and seek social change, in concert with others who feel-think the same. That's also a personal choice one might say, then again we aren't completely blind to other aspects of our lives: equality and social justice, for example. Sartre talked of the 'upsurge' of Choice with a capital 'C', in other words there are time we must choose what chooses us.

[kingofaikido]

There are many countries in the world where education is considered a human right and therefore free. Indeed, if one believed in human rights and democracy then an university education funded by the government would be mandatory, assuming democracy means the people being educated enough to know how or when they were getting ripped off. Disparities in educational opportunity rule out democracy among equals, equally educated, or at least sufficiently well educated to know what their rights are.