Free will cannot be without dasein. There has to be a context of values (you call them competing goods) that we are ordering according to (or in divergence from… which is cognitively distorted “freedom”) recognition of personhood,
Our thoughts which seek to grasp/classify cannot do so outside a value frame/taxonomy—because where we place our attention is not value-free. However, we can check for incongruities or contradictions, both linguistically/psychologically & practically in the external world… retracing our reasoning/experiencing steps back to the “unfractured, unfragmented” of balanced recognition of personhood in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Have you read C.S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man by any chance? Care to discuss?