Freedom depends on overcoming negativity and constraint
Evidence
Freedom, in an authentic sense, is tied to negativity. It is always freedom from constraint that the immunologically Other exercises. When negativity yields to excessive positivity, the emphasis on freedom—which springs dialectically from the negation of negation—also vanishes. — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 147
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Finitude is the condition of freedom, since freedom requires choice. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 871; Freedom requires a resisting, brute world rather than being limited by it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1153; Birth-place restricts freedom, whether this enslaves or enables (+15 more)
Related
- Freedom requires a resisting, brute world rather than being limited by it (similarity 0.84)
- Finitude is the condition of freedom, since freedom requires choice. (similarity 0.83)
- Freedom is the nihilation of a being it is, not something added later. (similarity 0.83)
- Freedom is the for-itself’s permanent ability to nihilate its own being (similarity 0.83)
- Freedom is the original upsurge that posits one’s ultimate ends. (similarity 0.83)
- Freedom is the small capacity to not fully reproduce one’s conditioning. (similarity 0.82)
- Freedom is only real once it chooses its own finitude. (similarity 0.81)
- Freedom’s only limit is itself; we cannot choose not to be free (similarity 0.81)
- Freedom constitutes my being rather than attaching to it as a property (similarity 0.81)
- The given never conditions freedom because freedom is its internal negation (similarity 0.81)
- Empirical freedom is a negative concept defined by absence of constraint within a situation. (similarity 0.81)
- The hardest constraints to overcome are those within oneself (similarity 0.81)
- Empirical freedom is a secondary nihilation that presupposes an original nothingness (similarity 0.81)
- Freedom that withdraws into self-interest denies its own nature (similarity 0.81)
- Losing the very idea of the freedom we lack is the deepest unfreedom. (similarity 0.81)