Human freedom to begin new things resists the tyranny of logical deduction
Evidence
Kant’s answer provides release from one of the two oppressions which threaten modern man, nature and history. Both appear to stifle the free, self-possessed personality: the former, because its mechanicism subjects the soul to the same blind forces as the falling stone and the sprouting stalk; the latter, because it makes of the soul a mere point of intersection of social threads spinning through history and reduces its whole creativity to a matter of administering the inheritance of the race. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 163 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Advanced civilization resents the merely given, the unproduced and unchangeable; Both nature’s mechanism and history’s determinism oppress the modern self — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 163; Modern mankind splits between belief in omnipotence and experienced powerlessness (+8 more)
Related
- Modern mankind splits between belief in omnipotence and experienced powerlessness (similarity 0.88)
- Both nature’s mechanism and history’s determinism oppress the modern self (similarity 0.84)
- Mechanical determinism makes people believe history moves without them. (similarity 0.81)
- Advanced civilization resents the merely given, the unproduced and unchangeable (similarity 0.80)
- Perceiving possibilities for freedom enables breaking with existing patterns. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Both nature’s mechanism and history’s determinism oppress the modern self
#complicates(0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 163