2nd language: Liberation

This concept is a bit more difficult to me to translate.

Sloterdijk compares it to artistic liberation: it's the path to freedom for the inner self. It's the deep layers of one's mind talking aloud. Maybe that's a reason why some many people have a desire to develop themselves in some artistic aspect (any).

Others have a passion for order. They enjoy intellectual challenges, or even mathematical riddles; they feel good when they solve them. I'd dare to say it is a different kind of liberation: it's a sort of freedom for the rational side of the mind.


However, what would be the connection to the traditional meaning of the concept? Liberation sounds like a power of the gods to give freedom to humans. That freedom could mean feeling good with oneself, thus partially as enligtenment (in the second language), partially as freedom for the mind (as above).

It is related to redemption as well; just look at liberation in the context of the wheel of the soul transmigrations.

Anyhow, it is like a release of the weight on your shoulders, which makes you feel better and more focused. It's understanding you are small, you are nearly nothing, so that you can focus on your own life.


There's a new way to put the concept of liberation which I've heard from some friends and I find really courious. In the context of the theory of the "selfish gene" (R Dawkins, 1976), we humans are just vehicles for the duplication of our DNA chains. Thus we are small, we are nothing, we are only vehicles; our life has no sense, thus we can focus on the tiny everyday's problems.