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What Is Freedom For?

Max Jeganathan

This clip suggests that true freedom is about living with purpose. It contrasts self-focused autonomy with a vision of freedom that leads to flourishing, meaning, and connection.

(Part II of The Freedom Trap with Max Jeganathan)

Free or Flourishing? (0:00 – 2:01)
  1. What does it mean to be truly free?
  2. What does it mean to ‘flourish’ as a person? How do you measure flourishing?
  3. What kinds of choices or values do you think will produce a flourishing life?
  4. What are some healthy limits that we might need, to flourish?

 

So What Are We Here For? (2:02 – 3:06)
  1. How would you describe the ‘purpose’ of your life? 
  2. Can you think of a time when putting others first helped you grow as a person?
  3. How does prioritising ‘worship’ and ‘love for others’ make us more free?
  4. Why don’t we naturally prioritise our relationship with God and with others?

 

 

Check out the rest of the ‘The Freedom Trap’ resources.

 

 

Priyan Max Jeganathan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity. A former lawyer and political & policy adviser, Max was educated at the Australian National University and the University of Oxford. You can read Max’s book ‘The Freedom Trap’ to further unpack the ideas that are introduced in this clip.