Published: 2018-09-081

The Suspected Freedom: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche as Critics of Political Liberties

Paweł Pieniążek
Humanities and Natural Sciences
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.575

Abstract

The article focuses on the problem of freedom in Kirkegaard’s and Nietzsche’s thought, especially on their critique of freedom as liberum arbitrium in the historical context of domination of political liberties (liberal freedoms). One can see the striking similarity between both thinkers asking about the existential meaning and function of apotheosis of political liberties as a guarantee of freedom of choice: in their absolutistation they see an expression of the spiritual weakness of modern man, his incapacity for autonomy and self-creation. Both apprehend  the insistence on negative freedom seen as the elimination of all coinstraints and limitations on freedom of choice as a justification for the human inability to ground man’s positive freedom.

Keywords:

liberum arbitrium, political liberties, negative freedom, positive freedom, autonomy, self-creation

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Pieniążek, P. (2018). The Suspected Freedom: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche as Critics of Political Liberties. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (19), 171–184. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.575

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