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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
Human freedom
Fichte defined what it is to be human as a freedom from necessity. Schelling, Hegel and, ultimately, Marx, as followers of Spinoza, denied that humanity in a submission to necessity. Perhaps this moves me forward in my quest. In answer to the ‘who am I?’ question, I might at least venture to say that I aim to be free from necessity.
In the Foundations of Natural Right, Fichte described the process by which individuals must be educated into becoming human beings before they can participate fully in a post-feudal society. He wrote:
The summons to engage in free self-activity is what we call up-bringing [Erziehung]. All individuals must be brought up to be human beings, otherwise they would not be human beings.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
To judge the Lamb of God
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Influenced by Giovanni Gentile
The work of Giovanni Gentile continues to feed into the development of my own writing, and, no doubt, will do so too into my next published book.
John Dunn
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Just a thought:
Amsterdam also saw the first bubble: the Tulip mania of 1637. This typical banker device, blowing bubbles with easy credit and then popping them by calling in loans, would haunt Western economies for centuries to come. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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The Oxford to Cambridge Arc
Further additions to the project, starting with Herman Moll's alternative to the Buckingham and Bedford route.
John Dunn
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