Chasing Heideggerian circles: Freedom, call, and our educational ground

Freedom and Humanbecoming

“…Parse’s conception of freedom is similar to, but not the same as, how Martin Heidegger described freedom as the “liberation of the human being” (Heidegger, in Dahlstrom, 2014, p. 569). Freedom as liberation involves steadfastness, responsibility, commitment, burden, and struggle, being toward-itself, and being able to be with others (d’Agnese, 2017). Heidegger, in Dahlstrom (2014), suggested, “Freedom is the liberation into the contest for the essential transformation of the human being into being-here (Da-sein) with the self-concealing, securing historical being” (p. 569).…”

“…Thus, Heidegger’s conception of Dasein’s freedom is that of a person living ongoing transformation. The idea of freedom as the ongoing-endless possibility of transformation for the human (Dasein) also “places unpredictability, instability and even danger at the core of the formation of Dasein” (d’Agnese, 2017, p. 952). Human beings live as transitioning beings and selfhood involves continuous transcending of boundaries.…”

“…The examples of these humanbecoming inquiries described how humans chose freely to cocreate their personal reality with imaging, valuing, and languaging. d’Agnese (2017) suggested that freedom and becoming involve “struggle and striving to become what we are” (p. 950). Parse (2014) stated, “Meaning is continuously changing as an individual changes, incarnating diverse pattern preferences, as different images give rise to possibilities (p. 43).…”

“…A humanbecoming concept inventing project of feeling overwhelmed (Kabigting, 2019) described enabling-limiting as the “ opportunities-restrictions ” (p. 216) of “illimitable boundless options with confining restrictions that individuals experience when feeling overwhelmed” (p. 216). d’Agnese (2017) suggested that as freedom “humans are thrown into the not-yet; delivered to such an uncertain and open condition; in a sense, we are the condition of being something that can either realize or nullify itself” (p. 951). Realize or nullify itself—opportunity or restriction.…”

“…Living with disappointment surfaced tension and struggle. d’Agnese (2017) suggested, “becoming what we are is described by Heidegger in terms that suggest struggle and striving is, hence an endless task, to which we attend our entire life” (p. 948). The second core concept, originating, is cocreating new and unique ways of living while faced with certainty-uncertainty and conformity-nonconformity.…”