All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.

Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier to criticize Freud and Jung than to criticize Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, because the latter are backed by political movements whereas the former are not.

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of the French Enlightenment and Mill, have sided with the powers that be.

We deem valuable whatever is likely to meet our needs or wishes (individual values) and whatever is likely to help protect or attain social goals (social values). However, this is not a dichotomy, for some individual values, such as truth, are needed to secure some social values, such as mutual trust, and some social values, such as peace, are required to pursue some individual values, such as good health.

I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.