Being ground his concept of freedom ontologically by distinguishing between being-in-itself and being-for-itself. Being is also understood as one's "state of being," and hence its common meaning is in the context of human (personal) experience, with aspects that involve expressions and manifestations coming from an innate "being", or personal character. Heidegger coined the term ""dasein"" for this property of being in his influential work "Being and Time" ("this entity which each of us is himself…we shall denote by the term 'dasein.'"), in which he argued that being or "dasein" links one's sense of one's body to one's perception of world. Heidegger,
John O'Neill (philosopher) John O'Neill (philosopher) John O'Neill is a philosopher. He is professor of Political Economy at the University of Manchester. John O'Neill held the post of professor of philosophy at Lancaster University. Previously, he was on the faculty of the University of Sussex and the University of Wales. Books Journal articles Mark Peacock wrote that in "The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics" "O'Neill defends an Aristotelian perfectionism which allows for a plurality of goods pursued for their own sake...The argument is sound, but does not answer the liberal objection to Aristotle that individuals must be allowed to pursue "what they believe