Friday, December 9, 2011

Person vs Citizen vs Man

Individual is a undivided one basic unit of society. The activity of individual produce Family, Social institutions and state.

We are grateful of Karl Marx (1818-1883) to discover the process of socialization of individual, first of all. Marx writes "everyone is playing partial role in production and depends on others for consumption and fulfill his needs. A man can not live without society. The process of socialization of being starts when mother teachs language to children. After this, this process continue to whole life education, learnig and doing work. This condition is also apply in cultural production.

Person and questions of personality are production of modern age. Before 17th century, a person was recognized by profession, family, caste and community. In modern age, Migration is integral part of industrialization. This process produces questions of person and personalty. Migration is not only part of industy or farming it is playing great role in media, litrature, arts and sciences. In metropolitan cities identification of a person limited to name and profession. Family and locality are becoming secondary identities.

This person's basic weakness, being born in family and growing in society nobody like to live alone. As a producer or consumer person is bound to make certaing relation with others and bound to live in dicipline. Family, society and State have its own dicipline.

In sense of unit we are member for family, citizen for state, person for society and human being as a form or life. in broder sense we are man and in narrow sense we are person.

It is important question, can we enjoy full freedom as a person. Not. It is not possible. It is a one kind of imagination. As a person we are bound to learn and live in dicipline. Life of a undiciplined man is likly to a animal. Surely question of free in slave countries or contries running under traditional dictatorship or communist dictartorship is not same.

But how to developed and enforced these diciplines are diffrent types of questions.

Thanks for reading.

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