Abstract
Taking clues from Kierkegaard, this essay explores the relation between the existential, the ethical and human freedom. Arguing against, on the one hand, a Bourdieuian view of the foundational fashioning of the singular existence by a non-personal habitus and, on the other hand, a Sartrean view of the foundational fashioning of the singular existence by way of a radically free and personal choice as the most appropriate starting points for an investigation of the ethical and human freedom, this essay gives an account of an existential dimension, reducible to neither habitus, nor choice, in and through which freedom takes place. First, this dimension is explored in terms of a proto-ethical demand and secondly in terms of the responsiveness of the singular existence to this demand – responsive processes that concretely unfold in such phenomena as the existential pathos of mood and the postures taken up in the places of existence originarily opened by such pathos. The central claim of the essay is that these existential responsive processes ofpathos and postures at one and the same time emplace the necessity and the possibility of human existence; that they are the vehicle in and by which human freedom originarily takes place.
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