practical inquiry regarding meaning » concrete conditions » liberty
The B-node brings with it the lofty goal of full self-actualization. Self-actualization means that, not only is one fully living the life they want to be living, they're lives are also fully integrated into the world. As the limit of Q (commitment/willing) in A (value), it's as if everything such a person experiences was willed by that person. The self-actualized person is experiencing precisely the life they choose to experience. But this isn't a one-way willing. It's not as if the self-actualized person is cut off from the world and controlling it completely. Rather, the self-actualized person is indeed fully self-determined, but it's a self-determination that has only come by...
