title: The Philosophy of Freedom
author:  Caleb Nelson 
description: Caleb Nelson has a BA in English and lives in North Ogden, Utah with his wife and three children. In his spare time, he is working on his first novel.
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  The
  
  
  Philosophy
  
  
  
  
  
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  Freedom
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Caleb
  
  
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  Kenneth
  
  
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  Copyright © 2012,
  
  
  2014 by Caleb Nelson and Kenneth Jeppesen
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover Image: Caspar David Friedrich, _Wanderer above
  
  
  the Sea of Fog _(1818), Wikimedia.
  
  
  
  
  
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  First Edition
  
  
  2012
  
  
  
  
  
  Second Edition 2014
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Therefore my people
  
  
  
  
  
  are gone into captivity,
  
  
  
  
  
  _because they
  
  
  have no knowledge_.”
  
  
  
  
  
  Isaiah 5:13
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Authors’ Note](part0000_split_004.html#_Toc407947555)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Introduction](part0000_split_005.html#_Toc407947556)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1: Principles of Existence](part0000_split_006.html#_Toc407947557)
  
  
  
  
  
  [THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN](part0000