On the Free and Comprehensive Development of Human Potential

Author: Chen Xiaohong
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book provides a systematic analysis and research on the comprehensive development of human freedom, covering Western liberal thought, traditional Chinese free spirit, Marxist views on freedom, Marxist perspective on the comprehensive development of individuals, and the pathways to achieve such development. It challenges the long-held prejudice that the concept of freedom in China originated from the West and that Chinese culture lacks a free spirit. The book contains 350,000 words.
The progress of human history is a process of pursuing and gradually realizing freedom. Through the various historical understandings of freedom, we can see that freedom is not merely a human essence or ability, nor is it the existing order of the world or its inherent necessity. The issue of freedom can never be divorced from considering the relationship between the two. The problem always lies in the dialectical unity of the two aspects that constitute human freedom: human wisdom and the order of the world, human internal necessity and the external necessity of the world, human needs and external conditions, human sensory contact with and intellectual grasp of the world, human will and reason, human transcendence and submission to reality, and so on. In short, the unity of the measure of human beings and the measure of the external world.