This is a single-authored book manuscript that is currently under contract with Routledge for its Political Philosophy collection. The book is scheduled to go into production in February 2021. This book project was previously titled “Death as Existence”, and it is a project for which the author was awarded a research grant by the United States Air Force, AOARD (2015-2016). In this book, the author questions the meaning of freedom through the lens of ethics and social philosophy. The book comprises four critical essays in which the author forwards four different arguments that are intended to shed light on both the existentiality of the desire for freedom and the fraught relationship between freedom and responsibility.