The Individual

1.1       Individual

Nature contains an infinite quantity of matter charged with energy which creates an endless multitude of forces, actions and reactions, tensions and equilibriums. The individual is a living part of nature; they possess the sensorial ability, thoughtfulness and the ability to act consciously. By moving, nature creates sensorial advantages and disadvantages to the individual. The sensorial difference between the advantages and disadvantages forms the individual’s needs.  

The individual defines their needs through thoughts. By thoughts, the individual creates and accumulates the consciousness of the advantages and disadvantages of their relationships with nature. In different conditions, thoughts form different emotional states. When the state of nature does not suit an individual, it creates in them a sensorial and emotional tension that concentrates energy towards finding an appropriate state.   

The individual mostly meets their needs by conscious action. The intensity of their actions depends directly on the degree of the disadvantages. Small disadvantages induce small moving energy, while significant obstacles that also bring into question their survival, accumulate the entire individual’s strength in their struggle for survival. The process of activity lasts until the individual satisfy their needs.  

Satisfaction of the needs brings advantages that are proportionate to the intensity of surpassed disadvantages. Advantages appear in the form of relaxation from the inconvenient tension and in a sensorial and emotional satisfaction. The process results in saturation. The relation of the needs and saturation change periodically, with the intervals dependant on the nature of the needs. The period of saturation relieves the individual from their needs.   

The individual depends on nature, therefore they are not entirely free. In its broadest sense, freedom represents a state of full independence and, accordingly, does not allow the formation of needs, either. The individual who has vital needs does not need freedom in the broadest sense. In a narrow sense, freedom should be a state which allows the satisfaction of needs because the individual who cannot meet their needs are not free. Such freedom is a condition for the accomplishment of the individual’s subsistence, for the development of their abilities, powers, cognition, and therefore the individual can and needs to have such freedom.   

Nature has unlimited power compared to the individual; however, thanks to their biological development, the individual adapts to the movements of nature and develops their abilities so that in normal, natural conditions they can meet their natural needs. The individual can be free in nature. Their freedom is based on their ability to do what they want; however, such freedom depends on their cognition that they want what they can do.   

During their lifetime, the individual acquires a multitude of favourable and unfavourable sensorial and emotional states arising from relations with nature. By controlling and arranging their reflective determinations as regards to the sensorial and emotional aspects of the life practice, they create knowledge about the conditions bringing advantages and disadvantages in nature. Knowledge formation is the individual’s greatest ability. Knowledge implies the forming of objective definitions of the laws of movements in nature, the definitions that under equal conditions form equal reactions irrespective of the degree of advantage or disadvantage that such definitions create to people. Objective definitions present the laws of the movements in nature as they are.    

Knowledge gives power to the individual to meet their needs by a conscious and organized work. The individual opposes the disadvantages in nature with planned work. They produce the means needed for their survival and the creation of more significant advantages. The working ability gives the individual a high power in nature.   

Anything that creates benefits has its value. The individual accepts the value in cases where differences may exist between advantages and disadvantages, where needs are not satisfied or may not be satisfied. The value is proportional to needs.   

The work output has its value in use or natural value. Natural value of the products of labour meets the individual’s natural needs related to the survival and living standard. The work brings advantages by itself to some extent so that it has some usable value to some extent as well. The individual’s bright future lies in finding the job that brings more benefits in its duration because in that way the individual reaches more existential conveniences. As a general rule, such conveniences last longer and may also be more intensive than the conveniences arising from consuming work results.   

By using knowledge, the individual defines the rightness of movements in nature, and the more deeply they reveal them, the more broadly they can apply their regularity. Knowledge gives the individual the power that is in its form unlimited to nature. The more the individual develops knowledge, the higher the needs they can create and meet, the more control they have over the conditions forming their sensorial and emotional states. “The individual who knows” can discover and build their progressive orientations, to live in harmony with their nature, to rely on their forces, to believe in their power and themselves. Such an individual can understand their relationship with nature, to develop love with nature, to develop a constructive relationship with nature, and to find pleasure in connection with nature. Such an individual necessarily lives in harmony with nature. 

The more the individual knows, the more they meet their natural needs, the more balanced they are, the more they believe in conveniences, the more optimism they build toward life, the more relaxed, content, joyful they live. Generally speaking, this is a description of an individual who lives a natural productive life and as such can be easily recognized.   

Wisdom is the highest level of knowledge. It is acquired only by the experience gained by healthy, natural living. The wise individual continually satisfies their natural needs and therefore experiences a significant satisfaction. They have everything they need, irrespective of the quantity and quality of what they have, and consequently, they are satisfied. By overcoming the inconveniences, the conveniences also lose importance. In other words, when differences between the possible conveniences and inconveniences get smaller, the needs also get smaller. The more the individual knows the less need they have, which means that by living they come closer to freedom in its broadest sense.