Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Kojeve P.492

But if Freedom is ontologically Negativity, it is because Freedom can be and exist only as negation. Now in order to negate, there must be something to negate: an existing given... Freedom dos not consist in choice between two givens: it is negation of the given, both of the given which one is oneself (as animal or as 'incarnated tradition') and of the given which one is not (natural and social World) .... The freedom which is realised and manifested as dialectical or negating Action is thereby essentially a creation. For to negate the given without ending in nothingness is to produce something that did not yet exist; now this is precisely what is called 'creating'.