"What is your aim in philosophy?" Ludwig Wittgenstein asked. "To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle."Philosophical Investigations;
Few would claim that philosophy or any other mode of mortal thinking or any application of technology has shown the fly of human reasoning and living the way right out of the fly-bottle—the way to absolute freedom.
Is it conceivable that humans can exercise absolute freedom? Few, again, would assert that it is. The nature of freedom, within any known material frame of reference, is mysterious. Would the fly know that it was out of the fly-bottle? If freedom in actual human experience is always curtailed, always qualified, the outlook for the future may seem gloomy. On the other hand, if entire freedom exists only in an idealist's imagination, what is the value of pursuing it?
