The Good News About Freedom
The disclosedness of beings,
which lets beings be,
sets man free for his “freedom”
by first offering to his choice something possible (a being)
and by imposing on him something necessary (a being),
human caprice does not then have freedom at its disposal.
Man does not “possess” freedom as a property.
At best, the converse holds:
freedom, ek-sistent, disclosive Da-sein,
possesses man….
excerpt from On the Essence of Truth by Martin Heidegger
