Freedom Comes from the End: Reconstructing the Ontology of Freedom After Creation

This paper advances a new ontological account of freedom that emerges after creation rather than before it.
Classical and modern theories—from Hobbes’s notion of negative liberty to Sartre’s existential freedom—have understood freedom as a condition for action or choice, emphasizing the openness of beginnings.
In contrast, this work argues that genuine freedom arises at the end of creation, when the act is complete and the self is released from the compulsion to become.
Through an existential–phenomenological analysis, it reconstructs the paradox of creation: creation both confines and discloses freedom.
Drawing on Sartre, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Dōgen, the paper identifies a post-creative mode of existence characterized by ontological fullness, stillness, and self-completion.
Freedom, in this sense, is no longer defined by absence, choice, or possibility, but by completion, fulfillment, and being-at-rest in one’s own existence.
This reconfiguration suggests that freedom comes from the end—not as the potential to act, but as the serene plenitude that follows creation.