E. Belfort Bax: The Ethics of Socialism (On Immortality)
Ernest Belfort Bax: The Ethics of Socialism (On Immortality) ... That the principle of Selfhood or I-ness which is the condition of all possible ...
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In and around the same period. Your text says socialism but it also sounds like German national socialism. In any case, thought is determined by era, not by national boundaries so one can imagine that these ideas were being tossed around outside of the Dutch-speaking realm as well, or even inspired by non-Dutch sources.

The Front Generation

For Heidegger, freedom is the “original understanding or the primal projection of that which it itself makes possible. In projecting open the for-the-sake-of-which [end, goal] as such, Dasein gives itself the original bond of commitment.”[21] Heidegger aims at understanding freedom as spontaneity, to begin something by oneself. Heidegger specifies this “by oneself” by understanding Being as the ability “to be with others.” Heidegger does not examine Being-in-the-world as “individual I-ness,” but as metaphysical “Ichheit,” for which he uses the expression “selfness” (p. 243). Being does not mean the “common isolated, egoistic subject.” Instead this Being is always already with others: “Only because Dasein as constituted by the for-the-sake-of exists in selfness, is something like a human community possible” (p. 245). “Selfness” in itself “freely bears a binding obligation for and to itself.” Dasein, as a free projection of the world, “sketches and prefigures the world such that the voluntary hold on it is a binding hold, i.e. this projection places Dasein in a playing field of choices. This binding commitment holds freedom over against itself. The world is in this freedom held over against this freedom” (p. 248). Therefore “being-in-the-world is nothing other than freedom” (p. 248).
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