Is the heart of human freedom the capacity to say no?

Per Caritatem: "Michel Foucault offers penetrating analyses of how subjectivities are constructed. His statements regarding the ubiquity of power relations have been misinterpreted as both a denial of human agency and a death blow to the subject. Against this entrenched view, I argue that his understanding of power relations presuppose free subjects and, in fact, creates a space for resistance possibilities." I wonder if this has to do with my own recurrent sense that the very heart of human dignity and freedom rests in the inner capacity to say no, and that the ultimate indignity is to wrest away this sacred capacity?



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