The chains of the present

A philosophy to free ourselves from the past while remaining who we are

von Angel Freddy Medina Segura

198 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Are we really free, or do we just do what we learned to do? Before we can choose, we are already inside a story we did not choose: a family, a culture, a language, an upbringing, and circumstances that begin to shape our way of thinking long before we can question them. We learn ways to interpret the world, develop habits, build emotional responses, and, over time, we can confuse habit with freedom.The book "The Chains of the Present" explores, from a philosophical and profoundly human perspective, those invisible chains that can condition our behavior without us recognizing them. It does not pretend to offer absolute truths or definitively resolve the old conflict between freedom and determinism. It proposes that we stop and observe how what we call "I" is constructed and what happens when we begin to observe our own thoughts.Throughout its pages, the past, memory, habits, fear, identity, and consciousness appear as pieces of the same question. How much of what we think, feel and do was really chosen by us? And, above all, what happens when we manage to recognize what for years worked inside us automatically?The journey then leads to a different possibility. We may not be able to choose where we come from, but we can consciously participate in what we are becoming. Perhaps freedom is not about living without conditioning but about developing the ability to observe them, question them, and sometimes choose a different response.This book is an invitation to look inward without definitive answers but also without fear of questions. Because we may not be completely free, but we are also not condemned to repeat indefinitely what we learned. Perhaps we are a little freer when we manage to look at our past without allowing it to automatically decide our next step.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175459815
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2026
• Größe: 203 x 127 mm
• Verlag: Independently published