Chairman Kim Jong Il said.
“Approaching the world by focusing on man means dealing with the change and development of the world mainly on the basis of the activity of man who transforms it.”
Dealing with the change and development of the world mainly on the basis of the activity of man who transforms it means dealing with the change and development of the world in view of the activity of man who transforms the world purposefully and consciously in conformity with his will and demands.
The viewpoint and stand of dealing with the change and development of the world mainly on the basis of activity of man enables to approach the world in view that the world is transformed and developed into the world for man only by his activity.
The world is not transformed favorably for man by itself. Different things and phenomena existing objectively in the world ceaselessly move and change according to the law of their motion. The world cannot be transformed and developed in favor of man without his positive activity. Man’s positive action and role are decisive factors that transform the world in accordance with his independent demand and interests.
The viewpoint and stand of dealing with the change and development of the world mainly on the basis of man’s activity also enables to consider man’s positive activity as the most powerful and dynamic factor and relying on it to enlist all other factors, in all cognitive and practical activities.
Not only man’s activities act upon the cognitive and practical activities of man who transforms the world. Because man’s activities to dominate and transform the world are conducted in objective conditions, not only man but objective factors can also act. Therefore, the problem of which, among the factors, should be regarded as the main factor and the problem of which makes other factors subordinated are raised.
The viewpoint and stand of approaching the world from the view of man’s positive activity enables to find the decisive factor that transforms the world not in objective conditions but in man.
Objective conditions can act on the spontaneous movement and change of material world by themselves, but cannot do on the domination and transformation of the world of their own accord. It is because they can affect the domination and transformation of the world only when they are cognized and utilized by man. Therefore in order to successfully conduct man’s cognitive and practical activities to dominate and transform the world, it is necessary to maintain the principle of regarding the man’s positive activity as the main and relying on it to make other factors acted.
The main requirement in the viewpoint and stand of dealing with the change and development of the world mainly on the basis of man’s activity is to regard it as the first process in all activities of transforming nature and society to train man into more powerful being and solve all problems arising in the revolution and construction by increasing man’s creative role.
