Freedom Topography in the Optics of Humanistic Concepts: J.-P. Sartre, M. Heidegger and P. Sloterdijk

Abstract

Introduction. In this article, a concept of human freedom is constructed, that implies the realization of notional integrity in the structures of social plurality. The goal is to expand the understanding of freedom in the optics of humanistic philosophizing.

Methodology and sources. The author refers to the texts of J.-P. Sartre, M. Heidegger and P. Sloterdijk. The continuity of these texts is arranged chronologically and conceptually. The research method is interpretation through notional limitation (M. Heidegger).

Results and discussion. The concept of freedom is represented temporally and topologically. Here a person goes beyond their own limits into a multiplicity of projections of social possibilities. The exit process is understood as a movement from the prescriptiveness of a single definition of essence (the position of das Man) to a borderline state that opens up a horizon of variant and/or invariants of social freedom. The discovery of the horizon at the point of here-and-now allows a person to choose and cast a new integrity onto their own being, thereby re-constructing existence within the communicative boundaries of social co-presence.

Conclusion. As a result, it is possible to establish that the freedom of human existence is fully defined and redefined in the mutual understanding of the essence and existence on the border between individual and social involvement.