Psychology: What We Can Positively Say About Freedom

In this chapter, we go beyond the theoretical problems. Instead, we look at some everyday environments where we humans make real decisions. By understanding how a supermarket, casino, or advertising works, we learn more about the factors that limit our actual free will. Thus, we are no longer talking about an absolute freedom of our decisions, but more or less of it. Methods from psychotherapy and meditation are described as a possibility to provide deeper insights into the functioning of our consciousness and thus to increase our freedom.