Pneumatological and ontological interpretation of essential and responsible freedom as seen from the creationary and evolutionary point of view

The paper is a summary of the author's studies in the ontological basis of freedom. The author argues, that the Christian conception of freedom and it s conception in the philosophy of the 20th century converge and make the un derstanding of man's freedom as the transcendental condition of all his spi ritual activity possible. Further, he explains, how the concepts of "essent ial freedom," "metaphysical freedom" and "transcendental freedom" are relat ed. In the second part of the paper the author develops a conception of ess ential freedom on the basis of his creationary-evolutionary philosophy. He sees the essential freedom as the freedom for the self-realization of the i nherent project of man's personal being, i.e. of his potentiality. This pro ject is implemented in the process of man's spiritual-evolutionary ontogene sis-the essential freedom is thus being constituted in the pneumatic relati onships to others and first of all to God. Thus the responsibility of freed om becomes evident. The ontological conditions of man's development are dis cussed as well. In conclusion the author depicts the pnematological alienat ion of contemporary culture as the crisis in the enforcement of the respons ible freedom.