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F R E E D O M : O N T O L O G I C A L A N D M O R A L
This is the ontological meaning of freedom.
It is not merely the ability to choose between alternatives,
but the capacity to transcend necessity—to refuse the given as
final, and to open existence toward something new, something
enduring, something that participates in truth.
If freedom is the defining mark of the human being, and if
it reveals itself as a movement beyond necessity toward life
and permanence, then we must now ask how this freedom is
exercised in reality—and how it can become either the path to
life or the cause of fragmentation and death.
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