Freedom As A Deep Need Of The Human Being

Freedom as a deep need of the human being

Freedom is rooted in the depths of the human person, which is a free being. Permeates all the acts of the person and especially those born from the will. For this reason, it is a defining note of the person, since it allows him to achieve his maximum greatness, but also his greatest degradation. It is not conceived that it can be truly human without being truly free. Freedom has four large planes that overlap and involve each other.

The first is constitutive freedom, also a fundamental or transcendental freedom, is the most radical and deep level. Freedom reaches the depths of man, it is not a mere property of his actions, but of his being. This constitutive freedom is to be a "free intimacy", that is, an interior space that no one can possess if one does not want and in which I am available to myself. Thus, no prison, punishment or torture is able to suppress this deep level of freedom.

It also consists of "opening" to everything real, having an unrestricted amplitude of possibilities, infinity with respect to the objects that can be known and of actions that can be carried out to achieve them.

Finally, constitutive freedom also means "self-realization", reaching the end of human nature;The person does not start from zero, has a body, history, birth and passive synthesis, which is the set of biological, genetic, affective, educational and cultural elements that man carries with him when he begins his conscious life and developing it.

The background is freedom of choice or arbitration, we are aware that we can choose or not and that we can choose this or that;These two capacities are necessary for the self-determination of the will. Freedom of choice is experienced spontaneously within our conscience.

There are three ways to understand freedom of choice. The first is by default, it is that the freedom of arbitration is not real, but apparent because many of our decisions are previously determined by motivations that we ignore most of the time, the passive synthesis that obviously condition our freedom of decision, butone thing is to condition and another suppress.

The second is by excess, which consists of exceeding the assessment of the choice, because it would be enough to choose (good or bad) to be free. It would no longer matter if the election harms others or the same person because it is being free;however, it must be judged using or not the criterion with the improvement of the person and those around them. To judge whether one thing is harmful or not necessary to take into account the results of the free elections, in oneself and in others.

And the third posture is the fair means, which consists that some human decisions are the result of freedom of choice, that the election can be accurate or not, since spontaneity does not ensure that we get it right and that we must pay attention to the consequences ofOur actions, since repeated elections cause habits and these make men better or worse.

The third plane is set in the realization of this freedom, also understood as the "vital project", which consists of the set of decisions that progressively design one’s life. The realization consists in living a set of vital trajectories that are born in situations, circumstances and events before which certain decisions have been made. This dimension focuses on getting the ideals themselves.

And finally, the fourth plane deals with social freedom that is linked to the previous level, since it seeks to live those ideals or vital projects established. Achieving these goals can be affected by factors such as misery or opportunities that arise;In addition, it is essential to recognize that this social plane requires taking into account economic and political considerations.