{"id":70871,"date":"2026-02-25T23:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=70871"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:25:22","slug":"the-taboo-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-taboo-of-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taboo of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"Is human freedom an illusion? A poetic-philosophical essay on self-knowledge, science, and the resurrection of the world.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI\u2019ve read two lengthy book reviews in influential journals in recent months, both expressing the growing consensus that human freedom is an illusion. The consequences elude me, and I turn to satire for relief. \u201cScientists around the world reach the consensus that freedom is an illusion; they have now turned to the question of what the significance of this conclusion can be, given that they are unsure exactly what conditions have brought it about.\u201d Thinking stalls and turns in on itself in free fall. I am trying to remove a small piece of eggshell floating in egg white, and each time I stab with my finger, it is displaced. I am an artist who is drawing the w<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is human freedom an illusion? A poetic-philosophical essay on self-knowledge, science, and the resurrection of the world. I\u2019ve read two lengthy book reviews in influential journals in recent months, both expressing the growing consensus that human freedom is an illusion. The consequences elude me, and I turn to satire for relief. \u201cScientists around the world reach the consensus that freedom is an illusion; they have now turned to the question of what the significance of this conclusion can be, given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9161,"featured_media":70539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,8793],"tags":[11760,11761,8814],"class_list":["post-70871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-philosophy","tag-ausgabe-7-2026-en","tag-english-issue-9-2026","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70885,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70871\/revisions\/70885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}