Freedom and Necessity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9198807 |
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| Authors | Friedrich Engels (0000-0002-5761-9328, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1951 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31 |
| Publication date | 1951-05-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-003-01-1951-05_4 |
| OpenAlex | W2068072312 |
| Language | EN |
Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the appreciation of necessity. "Necessity is blind only in so far as it is not understood:" Freedom does not consist in the dream of independence of natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
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| Highly cited | No |
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