The notion of creation, to which John Paul II has recourse in his general teaching, entails several «reversals» in the modern conception of liberty, which tend to throw light on the paradox of freedom. We thus see that the common hedonism which we have inherited from existentialism is but the ultimate individualistic manifestation of idealism; and that, on the contrary, it is to the spiritual nature of the human person that we owe his/her authentic autonomy and freedom (even facing the State). «Finitude» would then be found in an exacerbated self-interest; «infinition», in a desinterested gift of self.
