The colonial period of U.S. history contains a variety of interesting lessons. One of these pertains to the concept of a "virtuoso." The virtuoso was primarily characterized by curiosity. Rather than being overly specialized, the virtuoso explored a wide range of interests. The study of nature, art, literature, and theology all would have been pursuits common to this stereotype. This blog aspires to take this early category and use it as a point of departure for exploration and reflection.
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Marx on Freedom's Relation to Nature
"Just as the savage must wrestle with Nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilized man... Freedom in this field can only consist in... the associated produces, rationally regulating their interchange with Nature, bringing it under their common control, instead of being ruled by it as by the blind forces of Nature; and achieving this... under conditions most favorable to, and worthy of, their human nature. But it nonetheless still remains a realm of necessity. Beyond it begins that development of human energy which is an end it itself, the true realm of freedom, which however can blossom forth only with the realm of necessity as its basis." Karl Marx, "On the Realm of Necessity and the Realm of Freedom," from Capital, Volume Three, in The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Robert C. Tucker (New York: Norton, 1978), p. 441.
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