Chairman Kim Jong Il said.
“Consciousness is an attribute of social man, which determines all his endeavours to understand and reshape the world and himself.”
Consciousness is an attribute of social man, which determines all his endeavours to understand and reshape the world and himself.
Because he has consciousness, man understands the world and the laws of its motion and development, harnesses nature and develops society as he desires.
Consciousness is an attribute of social man, which determines all his endeavours to understand the world and himself.
It is important for man to understand the surrounding world and himself in order to transform the world and hew out his destiny. The cognitive process of understanding his demand and interests is not an passive process of reflecting things and phenomena but a purposeful and conscious one coordinated and controlled by consciousness,.
Because he has consciousness, man selects the object of his keen interest among things and phenomena of the surrounding world and aims whole process of his cognition as the understanding of its essence and law. Man braves negative psychological elements arising in the cognition process and makes his cognitive activities continuous and intensive.
Because he has consciousness, man is aware of his demand and interests as well as of the surrounding world and make strenuous effort for their realization.
Consciousness is an attribute of social man, which determines his endeavours to reshape the world and himself.
Like his cognitive activities, man’s practical activities are the purposeful and conscious process that is determined by the consciousness.
Consciousness makes man determine to select in a rational way the object and target, means and ways, stage and order of his practical activities. Because man has consciousness, he can determine what to transform and what to get on the basis of calculating vital needs and actual conditions, what kind of material and apparatus to use and which method and idea to apply and in which step and order to make his activities for transformation.
Consciousness is an attribute of man to coordinate and control so that he can make practical activities purposefully and consciously. Because he has consciousness, man makes initiative and active analysis and judgment of problems and situations arising newly in the process of his practical activities and takes proper measures and steps in conformity with them. He carries out his planned practical activities to the end by overcoming difficulties and ordeals encountered in the process of the activities with strong will.
