Frederick Pollack wrote:<Engels' "freedom is necessity realized" is a way
of dismissing the problem of freedom.> Well, "freedom's just another word
for nothing left to lose" dismisses that problem, but Engels was
paraphrasing Hegel's _Enzyklopädie_:"Diese Wahrheit der Notwendigkeit ist
die Freiheit" - "This truth of necessity is freedom", and similar statements
passim.(Enzyklopädie 1830 §158), and Hegel is expressing the difficult truth
that one may have to resist certain pressures to attain realization (in both
senses) of what is necessary; what is unnecessary is of course contingent
and will fall away in the gradual self-realization of the spirit.
Martin
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