relational inquiry regarding meaning » concrete conditions » liberty
• Maslow's self-actualization needs
• Isaiah Berlin's "Two Concepts of Liberty" (1958) on negative and positive liberty
• Hegel's concept of freedom as self-determination, of central importance to human history
• later stage in Jung's individuation—self-actualization—where ego has fully integrated back into Self while remaining separate
• Kant's kingdom of ends populated by individuals as "ends-in-themselves" of immeasurable value
• Nietzsche, from (1888) Ecce Homo [D. Large trans. Oxford UP 2007]: "My formula for human greatness is amor fati: not wanting anything to be different, not forwards, not backwards, not for all eternity. Not just enduring what is necessary, still less concealing it—all idealism is hypocrisy in the face of what is necessary—but loving it..." (35).
• Sartre
• Stoicism's amor fati
