Neki problemi odnosa slobode i prakse
Some Problems in the Relation Between Liberty and Practice

Summary/Abstract: Practice is considered as man's production of human actuality, i. e. as the civilisatory-cultural historical process. Some problems in the relation between liberty and practice are discussed: thus also whether liberty is a product of practice at some degree of its development, or an essential condition of practice, hence a constituting factor of all modes of its appearance. Do all modes of appearance of practice necessarily lead towards liberty, or are there other possible ways? Liberty in this context is considered less in the sense of »freedom from...« and principally in the positive sense, i. e. as creative originality, from which arises the possibility of changing given conditions. It is. accordingly, personal liberty, and as such a precondition for positive social liberty. In order to obtain answers to the questions posed above it is first necessary to establish the difference between original completeness of practice and its individual components which can be involved in the process of alienation. The difference is explained on the basis of Marx's standpoints as expressed in the chapter on »Estranged Work« in the First Economic-Philosophical Manuscript. From the analysis of some forms of the practice follows: Liberty permeates the entire historical production and civilisatory -cultural process and is the essential condition tor it. Liberty cannot merely be a product of this process (practice) at some degree of its development, because without liberty in the personal experience of man that process would not have started at all. Liberty appears with man. Practice in its original form. i. e. creative activity, is a confirmation of man as a free being, hence leads to liberty, yet some of its components may be involved in the process of alienation, in so far as separation and alienation grow, practice does not lead to liberty but rather, on the contrary, to stronger enslavement of men. The process is the more dangerous the less man is conscious of taking part in it, i. e. as far as his consciousness is involved in ideological estrangement. However, since it is impossible for this to be carried out completely because man's creative forces can be lulled to sleep, more or less but never completely, there is a possibility for him to come out from such a state of non-liberty.

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