26. Profession of Faith in Empirical Idealism

II. Man in relation to God and the world. Human development is a continuous overcoming of the two contradictions described above, and thus a continuous manifestation of God. The reason for human imperfection lies in the division of the original unity of the world into object and subject. This imperfection expresses itself in the sphere of action as unfreedom. We are unfree only in those parts of our activity in which the interpenetration of subject and object has not yet been realized by us. In this case we are subject to the power of the objective. The latter ceases as soon as we have grasped the spirit of a matter and have mastered it in accordance with its own nature. Seen from this point of view, human development is at the same time a moral and indeed an ongoing process of liberation.