Translator: Alberto Ciria Illustration: Agustí Penadès

This text is a profound interpretation of Schelling's "treatise on freedom", made by one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century.

This volume contains Heidegger's lectures and seminars in 1941 on what he considered the pinnacle of the metaphysics of German idealism: Schelling's thought concerning the essence of freedom.

Schelling defines freedom from the distinction between foundation and existence. Freedom is neither being nor its manifestation, but the difference between the two. The aeons are the existing unfoldings of temporalities of nature and man as divine manifestations, in which freedom can take place precisely to the extent that they differ from the foundation.
In a pedagogical and reflective way, Heidegger explains the philosophical history of the concepts of foundation and existence, from medieval scholasticism to the reception of Being and Time, passing through Leibniz and, in particular detail, through the existentialisms of Kierkegaard and Jaspers.