The word 'Liberty' is probably - statistically speaking - one of the most commonly used terms. Unfortunately - usually in a wishful context, in the face of breaking and abusing freedom. Professor Tischner entitled one of his publications: "The unfortunate gift of freedom." It is a signal that it is high time to understand and think about this unfortunate gift ...
The metaphysical tradition of the West emphasized the fact that man is characterized by rationality and freedom. According to classical philosophy, the human person decides about the attitude to the surrounding reality. The heir to the classical tradition - Jacques Maritain emphasized that "the human person is a universe of spiritual nature, endowed with the freedom of choice and thus constituting a whole independent of the world". Freedom of choice - according to this thinker - is the root of the world of freedom, which is realized more fully in the development of the human person, in self-conquering.
A certain extension of this perspective was brought by the personalism of the French philosopher Emmanuel Mounier. Man does not exist alone, his freedom is not the freedom of a lonely island, but it is always freedom in some community. True, authentic freedom is a good choice, which in essence consists in accepting values. Man, existing in the face of values, can accept them and he can also reject them because "free is the man who can promise and the one who can betray".
And just as we think about hope, we begin to face her loss, as well as freedom when we feel that she is threatened. The endangered gift of freedom brings a question about its deepest sense and the face of human freedom. And here hope meets freedom, or rather freedom meets hope. Because it is unfortunate for those who put their creative genius to sleep, saving themselves by "escaping from freedom", waiting for someone else to decide, think ... The genius of freedom is a creative human life, it is a certain artistry. Interestingly in this context there may be a paraphrase of the words of Roman Brandstaetter (taken from his work "O daj, us, Lord, inspiration to faith"), if the word 'faith' should be replaced with the word 'freedom':
"Freedom is a difficult work that requires vigilance of conscience /.../
freedom should be a material in which a man utters the whole /.../
each of us must shape this freedom according to the requirements of his creative will, according to the needs of his personality /.../
Every routine and every manners is the death of freedom and the death of conscience.
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