1.1
Individual
The nature of individual
A human being is a
part of nature. Nature contains an infinite quantity of matter charged with
energy which creates an endless multitude of forces, actions and reactions,
tensions and equilibriums. The nature of an individual is a living part of
nature; they possess the sensory ability, thoughtfulness, and the ability to
act consciously. By moving, nature creates sensorial advantages and
disadvantages for the individual. The sensory difference between the advantages
and disadvantages forms the individual’s needs.
The individual
defines their needs through thoughts. Through thinking, 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 a sensory and emotional tension that concentrates energy towards
finding an appropriate condition.
Individual mostly
meets their needs by conscious action. The intensity of their efforts depends
directly on the degree of the disadvantages. Minor disadvantages induce small action
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 satisfies their
needs.
Satisfaction of the
needs brings advantages proportionate to the intensity of surpassed
disadvantages. Advantages appear in the form of relaxation from the
inconvenient tension and sensory and emotional fulfillment. This process
results in saturation. The relation of the needs and saturation change
periodically, with the intervals dependent on the nature of the needs. The
period of saturation relieves the individual of their needs.
The individual
depends on nature; therefore, they are not entirely free. In its broadest
sense, freedom represents a state of complete independence and does not allow the
existence of needs, either. The
individual with vital needs does not need freedom in the broadest sense. In a
narrow sense, freedom should be a state that allows the satisfaction of needs
because individuals who cannot meet their needs are not free. Such freedom is a
condition for accomplishing the individual’s subsistence and developing their
abilities, powers, and cognition. 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 genuine
needs. As a result, the individual can be free. 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 many favourable and unfavourable sensory and
emotional states arising from relations with nature. By controlling and
arranging their reflective determinations regarding the sensory and emotional
aspects of the life practice, they create knowledge. With knowledge, individuals
develop notions of the conditions that bring them advantages and disadvantages.
Knowledge formation is the individual’s most remarkable ability. Knowledge
implies forming objective definitions of the laws of movements in nature, the
definitions that under identical conditions form equal reactions irrespective
of the degree of advantage or disadvantage that such definitions create for
people. Objective definitions present the laws of the movements in nature as
they are.
Knowledge gives
power to the individual to meet their needs through conscious and organized
work. The individual opposes the disadvantages in nature with conscious work. With
their work, individuals produce the means needed for their survival and create
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. The natural value of the products of labour
meets the individual’s natural needs related to survival and living standards.
The work brings advantages by itself to some extent so that it has some usable
value as well. The individual’s bright future lies in finding a 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 individuals develop understanding, the higher the needs they can create
and meet, and the more control over the conditions forming their sensory and
emotional states. “The individual who knows” can discover and build
their progressive orientations, live in harmony with their nature, rely on
their forces, and believe in their power and themselves. Such an individual can
understand their relationship with nature, develop love with nature, develop a
constructive relationship with nature, and find pleasure in connection with
nature. Such an individual necessarily lives in harmony with nature.
The more 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, and
the more relaxed, content, joyful they live. This is the presentation of an
individual who lives a naturally productive life and, as such, can be easily
recognized.
Wisdom is the
highest level of knowledge. It is acquired by the experience gained by healthy,
natural living. The wise individual continually satisfies their natural needs
and therefore experiences significant satisfaction. They have everything they
need, irrespective of the quantity and quality, and consequently, they are satisfied.
A satisfied person is a good person. This simple claim is so significant for
the development of humanism that it should be accepted as the natural law of
human beings.
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. Therefore, the more the individual knows, the less
need they have, which means that by living, they come closer to freedom in its
broadest sense.
