“Necessity-in-itself” generally refers to what we call “necessity”, and “necessity-for-us” is freedom. Freedom and necessity are philosophical concepts that reveal the correlation between people’s conscious activities and the objective law. Necessity is the law of the development of objective things, while freedom is the understanding of the objective law and the transformation of the objective world…
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