700.20 FULLER FREEDOM (pps.110-111)

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One cannot frighten people into goodness. In order to be good, man has to choose the good: but there is choice only where there is freedom.
-Berkovits448

The Ideal Man is still only an ideal. Before he becomes reality, freedom will have to find its place in the context of the Law.
-Berkovits449

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448 Berkovits, God, Man and History, p. 143.

449 Berkovits, Faith after the Holocaust, p. 63.
Cf. Hannah Arendt as cited in Fackenheim, To Mend the World, p. 20. “. . . every free action is unprecedented . . .all events worthy of the name are initiated by free actions.”


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