Freedom and Necessity in Human Activity

The article provides a socio-philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of free­dom, which the author considers as a unique property of social man, existing only in the world of people. In philosophical literature it is common to consider freedom as “y-self-existence”, as “independence from some other” that can in­fluence the behavior of the bearer of freedom. The author considers such inde­pendence as a necessary, but not sufficient sign of freedom. Freedom presup­poses independence from the other, but is not reduced to it, including also the ability to consciously control the internal determinants of behavior, among which the author includes genetically determined human drives to preserve the fact and acceptable quality of life, objective needs and objective interests. A person cannot abolish these determinative factors and their coercive influence on behavior, but he is able to subject them to motivational expertise, which ranks these determinants, making a free choice of urges, needs, and interests subject to priority realization or blocking. The article considers two types of human free­dom – external freedom, which is the freedom of goal realization, and internal freedom, which is the freedom of goal setting – the ability to independently choose the priority goals of life, to determine the desirable and undesirable for a person. Two types of external freedom are considered – reasonable, based on understanding and using the necessary connections of the world, and unrea­sonable, which acts as a procedural, but not productive freedom to do, but not to do something. The author argues that internal freedom – unlike external free­dom – is the subject of species-specific human needs, representing an inalienable condition of subjectivity, which a person can lose only together with the status of a subject

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