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- Title
Política y existencia. Dos facetas de la libertad individual y su origen común.
- Authors
Campos García–Calderón, Rafael
- Abstract
Campos García–Calderón, Rafael. Politics and Existence. Two Facets of Individual Freedom and Their Common Origin. In this article I will try to reinterpret the notion of individual freedom in the light of existential philosophy. Building on this perspective I will attempt to understand political freedom, an institution forged in Western modernity, from the experience of existence and its constitutive elements. In this first part I will look at the concept of freedom as political freedom, in the way it was developed by modern classical liberalism. In the second part I will do the same with the concept of existential freedom, based on the postulates of the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard. Finally, I will turn to the writings of the German philosopher Karl Jaspers to show the common origin of these two facets of freedom in the realm of the encompassing, the primordial dimension from which subjectivity emerges simultaneously as existential freedom and political freedom. From this dimension I will attempt to clarify the dialectical relationship between the two forms of freedom as the opposition between exception and authority, respectively, such that I can propose the development of an ethical personality capable of taking responsibility for its own political consequences.
- Subjects
LIBERTY; POLITICAL science; LIBERALISM; PERSONALITY; EXISTENTIALISM; KIERKEGAARD, Soren, 1813-1855; MODERNITY; AUTHORITY
- Publication
Xipe Totek, 2024, Vol 32, Issue 120, p133
- ISSN
1870-2694
- Publication type
Article