By Diego Poole 24/09/2025

The concept of fundamental right underlying the Universal Declaration of Human Rights presupposes a concept of freedom as pure indeterminacy.

The classical notion of freedom prior to the modern one, presupposes a finalized nature, that is to say, destined to an end. And thus freedom is understood as the capacity to bring that nature to completion. This prior inclination towards the fullness of one's own form is the presupposition of freedom. It is like thirst, whereby I choose to drink one thing or another, all for the purpose of quenching thirst. But thirst itself I do not choose. Thirst is like the inclination towards one's own fullness, which is given with the nature I have. And not just anything I choose can quench my thirst. If I choose to drink gasoline, I have not "chosen well", because I am not satiated by a previous inclination at whose service is freedom itself.

Diego Poole