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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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201534

A Shift of the question

from freedom-of to freedom-as

SunInn Yun

pp. 157-175

Abstract

Jean-Luc Nancy claims that the establishing of working definitions of rights, exemptions, and moral values in respect of freedom has tended to divert attention from any direct questioning of freedom itself. But what is it to question freedom without bringing in those ideas that ally freedom with education? To broach this point, this paper analyses the received discourse within philosophy concerning the idea of freedom, specifically its differentiation between negative and positive freedoms, considered as freedom of something: a genitive condition of human being. In reading of Martin Heidegger, I attempt to take a stance on the idea of freedom as a phenomenon that in education appears "as' something. In order to illustrate and explore the phenomenon of freedom in education, finally, this paper addresses the five themes of freedom as possibility, as movement, as a leap, as language, and as thinking.

Publication details

Published in:

Brinkmann Malte, Buck Marc Fabian, Rödel Severin Sales (2017) Pädagogik - Phänomenologie: Verhältnisbestimmungen und Herausforderungen. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 157-175

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-15743-2_9

Full citation:

Yun SunInn (2017) „A Shift of the question: from freedom-of to freedom-as“, In: M. Brinkmann, M.F. Buck & S.S. Rödel (eds.), Pädagogik - Phänomenologie, Dordrecht, Springer, 157–175.