Hegel's Psychology Of Freedom
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Since Plato correlated virtues in the state with those in the soul, the idea of a reciprocity between politics and psychology is as old as philosophy. For the possibility of the state as an ethically founded community rests on a concept of the individual as actually free, not some hybrid being who is in some sense free, in another not so. Correspondingly, any psychology which does not know personality to be the truth of human nature, which cannot comprehend human action as prompted by self-generated rather than instinctive ends, stands as a formidable obstacle to the very idea of a free community. To paraphrase Plato, where freedom remains psychologically ambiguous, so too must the ideal of free polity remain in principle unfulfilled.
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Marx, Karl
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