Praxis produces institutions, ideas, and concepts, creating history itself

Evidence

It is as transforming and creative beings that humans, in their permanent relations with reality, produce not only material goods—tangible objects—but also social institutions, ideas, and concepts. Through their continuing praxis, men and women simultaneously create history and become historical-social beings. Because—in contrast to animals—people can tri-dimensionalize time into the past, the present, and the future, their history, in function of their own creations, develops as a constant process of transformation within which epochal units materialize. These epochal units are not closed periods of time, static compartments within which people are confined. Were this the case, a fundamental condition of history—its continuity—would disappear. On the contrary, epochal units interrelate in the dynamics of historical continuity. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 291

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘epochal units’ as interrelating rather than static — historical continuity depends on them not being closed compartments.