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@article{ART001847703},
author={Oh, Heung Myung},
title={On the Possibility of Fundamental Freedom},
journal={PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE},
issn={1975-1621},
year={2014},
number={17},
pages={1-27}

TY - JOUR
AU - Oh, Heung Myung
TI - On the Possibility of Fundamental Freedom
JO - PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
PY - 2014
VL - null
IS - 17
PB - Research Institute for East-West Thought
SP - 1
EP - 27
SN - 1975-1621
AB - Why am I at all and not rather nothing? The question, if not aimed at exposing the physical cause of causal necessity, requires a philosophical explication of the reason why I should exist at all, as opposed to not existing. How could this fundamental philosophical question be raised from the philosophical viewpoint, if the human being is already given even before his or her own decision to exist? If I am free, I should be able to be through my own free decision. In order for me to be able to freely determine whether or not I am, however, an ontological contradiction would be inevitable in such a way that I should be there before I exist. On the contrary, if I am not able to make a decision about my existence, there would be another contradiction; I, through the will that is not my own, come into being as a free being, without being able to be free to determine for myself. Thus to ask why I am at all and not rather nothing, is to ask whether such fundamental freedom would be possible to the human being. This paper tries, from the question above, to consider basic moments and the possibility of human freedom termed as ‘self-caused’, and thereby also, to ask and answer the fundamental question of metaphysics as to why there is something at all and not rather nothing.
KW - Being;fundamental freedom;self;death;event of being
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Oh, Heung Myung. (2014). On the Possibility of Fundamental Freedom. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, 17, 1-27.

Oh, Heung Myung. 2014, "On the Possibility of Fundamental Freedom", PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, no.17, pp.1-27.

Oh, Heung Myung "On the Possibility of Fundamental Freedom" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE 17 pp.1-27 (2014) : 1.

Oh, Heung Myung. On the Possibility of Fundamental Freedom. 2014; 17 : 1-27.

Oh, Heung Myung. "On the Possibility of Fundamental Freedom" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE no.17(2014) : 1-27.

Oh, Heung Myung. On the Possibility of Fundamental Freedom. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, 17, 1-27.

Oh, Heung Myung. On the Possibility of Fundamental Freedom. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE. 2014; 17 1-27.

Oh, Heung Myung. On the Possibility of Fundamental Freedom. 2014; 17 : 1-27.

Oh, Heung Myung. "On the Possibility of Fundamental Freedom" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE no.17(2014) : 1-27.