At no point is philosophy a flight from reality. On the contrary, philosophy can be a movement of flight but what it flees is not reality. Philosophy flees the ghosts and phantasms that step in front of the appearance of the real. It flees the consolations, illusions, mere appearances, naked phantasm into reality. It flees opinion (doxa) or common-sense into knowledge (episteme). It flees the morality of society and history into responsibility. It withdraws from the dictatorship of the systems of guilt and conscience. It is a movement of self-liberation. Philosophy is the love of freedom.