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In order to make still clearer the simultaneous influence of the inner microcosmic and the outer macrocosmic determinisms on human life, we return again for an analogy to modern physics.
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The term “soul” is used here not metaphysically but only as a symbol for a “bio-psychical unity” of man.
His enemy, too, if man will not be a collaborator of God in His creative activity in and through the universe. We have two religious polarites: 1) “friend-enemy” of God, and (2) “master-slave,” i.e. God-man. As soon as man refuses to be “slave” of God, he will be His “master,” destroying thereby the very idea of God and becoming Godless (atheist). Therefore, it is no wonder that extreme humanism, where man is the master of the universe, led and will inevitably lead to atheism, for instance, European Humanism.
Maybe this process of collectivization has reached its possible summit in the world of ants, bees and termites, at the same time making these insects incapable of developing the cultural form of social life, so characteristic for man as a being with highly developed individuality which is in a constant rebellion against an absolute collectivization in the name of the freedom of his realization. Just this highly developed individuality of man is one of the most essential signs of genius as a creator of culture. Cannot this example from the world of social insects be a kind of warning for all these so-called leaders of mankind and molders of its history, who strive to collectivize man too much? The final result of this excessive collectivization of man can be the destruction of the human cultural form of life and the transformation of it into something like the social form of ants, bees and termites.
Are not the societies of ants, bees and termites a kind of “blind alley” in the social development of living beings, because these societies exist already millions and millions of years without a considerable change as to the spiritually and socially higher level of existence? In this way, the development of man in the direction of his absolute collectivization can lead also to a “blind alley.” Then nature can elect some other living being which will take the mission of bringing the spiritual and social life to a higher and higher level.
The son of Prometheus Deucalion became the ancestor of the Hellenes or Greeks through his son Hellen.
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von Spakovsky, A. (1963). The Inner Individual Determinism and the Outer Social and Cosmic Determinism in the World of Man. In: Freedom — Determinism Indeterminism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6602-9_10
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