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Freedom Beyond Purpose: Transcending Absurdism

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This paper examines the relation between meaning and freedom, arguing that meaning implies a degree of dependency. To call something “meaningful” is to point to something external. From this, it follows that complete autonomy indicates meaninglessness. Meaninglessness here is not moral worthlessness but ontological freedom. A creatorless or purposeless universe bears the mark of its ontological superiority, for it exists without necessity. The greatest property of the universe may therefore be not meaning, but freedom.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17364841

Author: Bharadwaj, Aahana

Language: English

Topic: Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7092186232

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