On Jul 28, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Ted Winslow wrote:
>
> I recently reproduced the passage from Anti-Duhring in which Engels
> identifies his and Marx's "historical materialist" idea of this
> particular idea of the relation of "freedom" to "necessity" with
> Hegel's.
>
> The basis of thIs particular idea, however, is the ontological idea
> of objective and knowable ethical, intellectual and aesthetic
> principles and the anthropological idea of human beings as the
> beings able to develop the capacity to know these principles and
> actualize them in their activity, such actualization constituting
> what Hegel means by "objective freedom."
>
> So the "necessity" involved in "freedom" elaborated in this way is
> the relation of fullly "free" activity to these "universal"
> principles. This is what is meant by Hegel's idea of human being as
> the potentially "Divine Being," i.e as "the unity of the universal
> and individual."
>
What a beautiful "footnote to Plato!"
Shane Mage
"This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 30