Monday, October 29, 2012

Logic and structure of Mind

Hegel says before any endeavor to know the truth of the world we must know whether knowing is possible or not. In other words, does Mind correctly reflect the objective truth? Mind, in finding solutions to questions, wants to prove its conclusions are true, or tries to show nothing other than its conclusion exists, or, let's put the conclusion in words as follows: no other induction is possible because the product of Mind is Necessary. Logical means and is equal to Necessary. But an important question is whether Mind necessarily moves through certain routes - logical modes of thinking - or Mind is free from structures and Logic is the laws adopted by a wise man to shape his thoughts and arrive at reasonable conclusions.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Freedom; identity of subject and object

Deterministic view of man sees him as the slave of the God of History. Constant rules of history determine the way of men's movements. A milder interpretation describes the course of history as a product of unconscious activity of men. If we consider the whole human society as the Subject and the whole external world as his Object then the history will be nothing other than the continuous process of the Subject and Object coming closer and closer. Of course, human society itself may be posited as an element of the Object. In other word, man, along wrestling with Nature, becomes conscious of himself and discovers the characteristics of himself.