ABSTRACT

Freedom is the truth about humankind, and freedom works and grows within desire by means of war. Freedom's appearance and development are mediated by war; its blossoming into deeds, by peace. The war that mediates freedom is not war for survival but war to impose one's own worth. The human who was capable of risking his life by negating his natural motivation to stay alive was born to freedom by negating its absolute opposite, need. Having become "freedom within servitude" and contemplating a lord who lacks the skills and intellect required by tasks he does not himself do, the underling quickly grasps that he can resist this inert lord, trapped in his enjoyment. So humans become conscious of themselves in their freedom, attain knowledge of themselves in their truth—as a process of becoming and self-creation, not as a mere sequence through time, waiting for time to lead them to their deaths.