Being Free and Letting Oneself Be Bound. A Central Motif in Heidegger’s Aletheiological Approach to Freedom

Alejandro G. Vigo

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Being Free and Letting Oneself Be Bound. A Central Motif in Heidegger’s Aletheiological Approach to Freedom

Alejandro G. Vigo^*

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This chapter analyses some significant aspects of Heidegger’s elaboration of the idea of the “binding character” or the “bindingness” (Verbindlichkeit) of what has a claim to truth, in the context of his aletheiological reformulation of the notions of freedom and truth. The focus of the essay shall be on Heidegger’s lecture course on The Basic Concepts of Metaphysics (1929/1930) and his essay on The Essence of Ground (1929). After explaining in general terms the systematic importance that Heidegger assigns to the problem of bindingness, the paper examines Heidegger’s understanding of the connection between freedom and bindingness, as it is present in the theoretical-constative access to the world and to beings, both at the ontic and at the ontological level.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	15-28
Number of pages	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11469-4_2
State	Published - 2022

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Name	Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
Volume	39
ISSN (Print)	1387-6678
ISSN (Electronic)	2215-0323

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Being Free and Letting Oneself Be Bound. A Central Motif in Heidegger’s Aletheiological Approach to Freedom. / Vigo, Alejandro G.
Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2022. p. 15-28 (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy; Vol. 39).

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