POLECON 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Joseph Schumpeter, Practical Action, Common Existence

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Political Economy
• Course: POLECON 100
• Professor: Talwalker Clare

Document Summary

People have a natural (personality, skills, etc. ) and an external (relations with the outside world) existence. These things are immediate (we are looking at their current states, not their potential for change) Things become immediate through thoughts (we think of them in immediate terms) We possess ourselves, like our immediate bodily form, if our will is in our bodies. Our bodies are owned by our minds (our minds our free while our bodies are not) But the body is the embodiment of freedom (the mind uses the body to exercise freedom) Man not free by nature- free through the mind"s possession of the body (existence in conformity with its concept) Alienation of personality occurs when reality does not meet expectation or vice versa. A person is a totality of wants and physical necessity and is part of a civil society. The state emerges from the need of a universal ethical life in civil society.