Freedom is not most fundamentally, a means by which one achieves an external goal. It is not first a power or choice.

Instead, it is itself an end. Freedom is ultimately what we are set free for.

In this understanding, the aspect of power or choice which has dominated the discussion of the nature of freedom is derivative.

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