Zagadnienie wolności, wyobcowania i samorealizacji jednostki w warunkach współczesnego kapitalizmu

Jadwiga Błahut-Prusik

Published: 2018-10-131

No. 9 (2003)

Issue of Freedom, Alienation and the Human Being’s Realization in the Conditions of the Contemporary Capitalism

Jadwiga Błahut-Prusik

Abstract

The article portrays a humanistic aspect of the contradictions in the process of our realization in the conditions of the contemporary capitalism. The background of the article is determined by the categories of „positive freedom” and „negative freedom” which are characteristic of Erich Fromm’s philosophy. The underlying principle of the article is the view that the main driving force in the process of transformation of the civilization is a need of transcend nature that is going beyond a current situation. The need of transcendence can be accomplished either positively by loving and creating or negatively, through hatred and destruction. Thus the progress of the civilization to a large degree depends on the human being’s relation to himself and exterior reality. His attitude can be a progress (positive freedom) that is, it can enrich not only an individual’s personality but also the whole civilization. On the other hand, it can be a regress (negative freedom), it can restrain the progress. The article portrays how extremely difficult the implementation of positive freedom, especially in the contemporary conditions is and that current activity requires a huge effort and thorough cultural transformations. Both the industrialism and the process of its dying out make the human being stand in the fact of a number of contradictions, threats and conflicts. The article portrays the paradoxes of wrongly comprehended contemporary freedom and these factors which constrain the need of creation and individual development.

Keywords:

alienation, conformity, consumption, ess of the human being’s realization, religion, work

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Błahut-Prusik, J. (2018). Issue of Freedom, Alienation and the Human Being’s Realization in the Conditions of the Contemporary Capitalism. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (9), 57–73. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/hip/article/view/1688

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