Concept of freedom within a framework of autonomous rationality

The study introduces the concept of freedom within a context of autonomous rationality. On the one hand, freedom is considered in its opposition to pure accident, blind spontaneity and predetermination. On the other hand, the concept of freedom could be determined as a particular case of autonomous rationality. In this case, the very autonomy of the system appears to be an internal product of the system’s rationality. Such autonomy takes place whenever freedom of an act/solution is such that 1) the authorship of this rational act belongs to the acting system itself, and 2) the corresponding actualization was mediated by a “model of autonomously rational behavior”. Such a model must be rooted in a unique history of rational acts of the system under consideration. It plays a role of optics which makes it possible to “see” alternative scenarios. As for conscious creatures, this optics is based on appropriately developed notion of freedom

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