Freedom, Values, and Sacrifice
Freedom, Values, and Sacrifice
Overcoming Obstacles to Environmentally Sustainable Behavior
Sacrifice is never easy or practiced willingly, even in the context of limited freedom. This chapter focuses on identifying the intricate association between sacrifice and freedom or agency, and explores unidentified, false, and hard sacrifices. It also discusses the obstacles involved in abstaining from material gratification for the sake of longer-term, bigger-picture values. Freedom in sacrifice can help achieve the goal of environmental sustainability. It is argued that sustaining sacrifice is often not recognized as sacrifice until it is regarded retrospectively. The chapter reflects on the concept of sacrifice and explains that acts of sacrifice are an expression of value.
Keywords: sacrifice, freedom, agency, material gratification, values
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