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Dialectics of the Individual and Society

(Original title: K dialektike indivídua a spoločnosti)
Filozofia, 40 (1985), 3, 257-270.
Type of work: Papers - Problems of the Formation of Socialist Personality and Socialist Way of Life
Publication language: Slovak
Abstract

The author presupposes that the notion „social“ has quite another signification 1, in the dialectics of the social and the natural as 2, in the dialectics of the social and individual. In the analysis he explicates three levels of the social — the clan, historical and class dimension and he concludes that in the first relation (1) the social dominates as the clan form and the historical enters here tnsofar as it expresses the historical tendency of the growing autonomy of society in relation to Nature, and in the second relation (2) the social dominates as the group (communal) form, while the class and the historical enters here insofar as it expresses the historical tendency of the growing autonomy of the individual in relation to society.

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