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May 12 2010

bentrem

For Hegel, freedom was not just a psychological phenomenon, but the essence of what was distinctively human. In this sense, freedom and nature are diametrically opposed. Freedom does not mean the freedom to live in nature or according to nature; rather, freedom begins only where nature ends. Human freedom emerges only when man is able to transcend his natural, animal existence, and to create a new self for himself. The emblematic starting point for this process of self-creation is the struggle to the death for pure prestige." Chapter 13; p. 512 [emph added --bdt]

— The End of History. Francis Fukuyama (1992) - at Amazon.com; see also Fukuyama's "Introduction", at Marxists.org