On freedom as an event: Groundlessness as openness of the world Cover Image

O slobodi kao događaju: Bestemeljnost kao otvorenost svijeta
On freedom as an event: Groundlessness as openness of the world

Author(s): Žarko Paić
Subject(s): Metaphysics, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: Metaphysics; West; freedom; technosphere; homo kybernetes;

Summary/Abstract: The author shows that freedom as an event is a condition for the possibility of the entire metaphysics and history of the West. As a fundamental driver of events, freedom must manifest in its three ‘ontological’ spatiotemporal ways of appearing in connection with chance and necessity, facticity and contingency, chaos and emergence. The first is the one that opens up philosophy as a possibility of thinking beyond a reduction to myth, religion, art and science, establishing its own autonomy in the age of the technosphere. The second is the one that has its political meaning of action, determination and the creation of something new in history, starting from the idea of the sovereignty of the people and ending in the post-imperial sovereignty of a large area (Gro§raum), as Carl Schmitt defines the end of the era of the nation-state in the history of the world and the transition to the form of the imperial order of power and their permanent struggle for rule over the territory of the Other. The third is the one that appears as the last sign of resistance against all kinds of enslavement and reduction of man to thing-object-information in the system of rule of the posthuman condition with homo kybernetes as the last form of “spiritual Being” of Human in general.

  • Issue Year: XXVI/2023
  • Issue No: 94/95
  • Page Range: 11-32
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Croatian