free spirit

For me, the most important types of freedom are intellectual and emotional -- and these are freedoms that are mostly up to you to grant yourself. Which is easier said than done. A free spirit in this sense is not constrained by guilt, closed-mindedness, or unreasonable fear. I'm working on it.

Nietzsche was big on the idea of "free spirits."

If I understand correctly, a free spirit in the Nietzschean sense is a person who is free of all prejudice and assumption. Someone who can see things from any way and isn't bound by any of them.

Here, this is a definition of a free spirit that I found in a commentary to Beyond Good and Evil:

"Someone who has the flexibility of mind not to be caught up in any one point of view or dogma. A free spirit looks at the world from many different perspectives, uncovering the prejudices and assumptions that underlie any particular point of view."

I figure that pretty much explains it.