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.

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