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How much of your life have you freely chosen?

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In your life, there are some things that you didn't choose,

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that you found, that you cannot change.

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For example, your body, or the country you were born in,

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or the language you speak, or the family.

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You didn't choose these things, you just found them.

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They are part of what you find around you.

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On the other hand, there are other things that you decided.

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You chose your friends, or you can choose them.

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You can leave them and find new ones.

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You choose your partner, your boyfriend or your girlfriend.

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And if you want, you can change.

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And you choose the kind of university studies that you want to do.

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That is your decision.

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So in your life, there are things that depend on you, others that don't.

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The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset described this saying,

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a very famous sentence. I quote, I am I and my circumstance. What does this mean? Ortega meant

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that in your life there is a part that you found that you can't change, that is part of your reality

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but you haven't decided. This is what he called your circumstance. So the country you live in,

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the society you live in, the language you speak, or the family you live in, are all parts of your

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circumstance, something that is in your life, but you didn't decide. You just found it there.

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But there is also another part. I am I. So there is a part that is my own free will,

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my decisions, my freedom to decide what to do. Of course, in my decisions, I must take into

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account my circumstance. I cannot decide to do whatever I want. There are limits. My circumstance

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sets limits to what I can freely decide. Nevertheless, there is always a margin to

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decide. There is freedom, because human beings are moral. We can decide freely what to do.

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so a part of my life depends on me that's why the word autonomy is so important in ethics

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autonomy means the ability of giving your own rules to yourself the opposite word is heteronomy

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you are autonomous when you decide by yourself what you want to do which are your rules of

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behavior you're heteronymous when other people decide the rules for you for

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example a child is heteronymous because their family told them what to do what

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is right what is wrong when you grow up you become adult you decide by yourself

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what you think is right or wrong you have your own norms of conduct so we say

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that you are autonomous