The happening of freedom
transcendence and ecstasy of the heideggerian dasein
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https://doi.org/10.4013/con.2025.213.02Keywords:
Heidegger. Freedom. Metaphysics of Dasein. Ekstasis. Event.Abstract
This article offers a presentation of Martin Heidegger’s concept of freedom, drawing on his lectures from 1927 to 1930, especially Metaphysical Foundations of Logic Based on Leibniz (GA 26). Rather than treating freedom as self-determination or a foundation for moral action, the study explores it as ontological ekstasis and original happening: a field of transcendence, play, and disclosure. Freedom is presented as that which makes the world appear as world, not a causal principle, but the very “groundless ground” (Abgrund) of the unveiling of beings. The argument unfolds in five stages: (1) freedom as the origin of relationality and metontology; (2) the shift beyond causality, as a structure of transcendence; (3) freedom as the happening of truth and the condition for worldhood; (4) the hermeneutics of the game of life as the Dasein’s destiny; and (5) the tension between ground and groundlessness as the abyss of freedom. Ultimately, the article claims that freedom, in Heidegger, is not a subject’s property, but the very name of Dasein’s happening.
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