Direction " Man and society"is included in the list of topics for the final essay for the 2017/18 academic year.

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Composition on the topic: Man and society

Man and society - this is one of the directions of the topics of the final essay. The topic is broad, multifaceted and deep.

Man, individual, personality - in such a sequence it is customary to build the "path" that people go through in the process of socialization. The last term is familiar to us from the lessons of social science. It means the process of embedding a person in society. This path is a lifetime. That's right: throughout our lives we interact with society, change under its influence, change it with our ideas, thoughts and deeds.

Society is a complex system of interaction of its individuals with all their interests, needs and worldview. Man is inconceivable without society, just as society without man is inconceivable.

Society generates reason, meaning and will. It is truly legitimate, it concentrates the essence of human existence: everything that distinguishes a person from a biological being and that reveals his rational and spiritual nature. Society forms the human personality, its system of socially significant features of a person as a member of society.

Among decent and educated people, everyone tries to be no worse. Similarly, in a bad society, the value of integrity is lost for a person, vicious instincts emerge, impartial actions are allowed. A dysfunctional environment does not condemn this, and sometimes even encourages negativity and anger.

Man might not have discovered in himself these negative traits if bad society and environment had not contributed to this.

An example of arguments and reasoning on the topic of man and society from a work of art:

A similar situation was described by Panas Mirny in his novel “Do oxen roar when the manger is full?”. When main character novel - Chipka became friends with dubious personalities - Lushnya, Motnya and Rat, then everything good and kind that used to be in him disappeared somewhere.

The hero of the novel became cynical and vicious, began to steal, and later moved on to robbery.

The author filigree depicts an epic picture of the moral fall of man. Drunkenness in the house of the hero of the novel is accompanied by insults to his mother. But Chipka is no longer hurt by this, he himself begins to scold his own mother. All this turned into a shame, which later became fatal for Chipka. He soon reached the point of murder. There was nothing human left in him, since he followed unworthy people in life.

Without a doubt, society affects a person, his character and personality as a whole.

However, it depends only on the person himself - to listen to the good, bright and creative, or to wallow in the abyss of immorality, malice and lawlessness.

An example of an essay on the thematic direction "Man and Society" on the example of Dostoevsky's work "Crime and Punishment"

Throughout the history of mankind, people have been interested in the problems of the relationship between man and society. The tendency to unite efforts and joint life is in our blood. This trait was passed on to us not even from monkeys, but in general from animals in general. Recall such concepts as "flock", "herd", "pride", "school", "swarm", "herd" - all these words mean a form of coexistence various kinds animals, fish and birds.

Of course, human society is much more complex than animal communities. This is not surprising - after all, it consists of the most intelligent and developed representatives of the living world.

Many thinkers, philosophers and scientists have been looking for or trying to create such an ideal society, where the potential of each of its members would be revealed and where each individual would be respected and appreciated.

The course of history has clearly demonstrated that idealistic thoughts do not get along well with reality. Man has never created an ideal society. At the same time, the best social structure in terms of equality and justice, according to scientists, city-states are considered in Ancient Greece. Since then, no truly qualitative progress has been made.

And yet I believe that every reasonable person should try to contribute to the improvement of society. There are several ways to do this.

The first is the way of writers-educators, which consists in a systematic change in the worldview of readers, in the transformation of the existing system of values. This is how Daniel Defoe acted for the benefit of society, demonstrating with his work “Robinson Crusoe” that even a separate human person is capable of doing really a lot; Jonathan Swift, who, with his novel Gulliver's Travels, clearly showed social injustice and offered options for salvation, etc.

The second way of human change of society is radical, aggressive, revolutionary. It is used in a situation where a way out is inevitable, when the contradictions between society and the individual have escalated to the point that they can no longer be resolved by negotiations. Bourgeois revolutions in England, France, and the Russian Empire can serve as examples of such situations.

I believe that F.M. Dostoevsky managed to show the second way in literature most clearly in his novel Crime and Punishment. The student Raskolnikov, battered by life, decides to kill the old money-lender, who for him is a vivid personification of the social injustice that took place in St. Petersburg in the 19th century. Taking from the rich and giving to the poor is the purpose of his plan. By the way, the slogans of the Bolsheviks were also similar, also striving to improve people's lives, so that the one who "was a nobody" would become "everyone." True, the Bolsheviks forgot that you can’t just endow a person with abilities and talent. Undoubtedly, the desire to make life fairer is noble. But is it at such a price?

The hero of Dostoevsky's novel had another opportunity. He could continue to study, start giving private lessons, a normal future was open to him. However, this path required effort and effort. Killing and robbing an old woman, and then doing good deeds is much easier. Fortunately for Raskolnikov, he is prudent enough to doubt the "rightness" of his choice. (the crime led him to hard labor, but then comes an epiphany).

The confrontation between the personality of Raskolnikov and the society of St. Petersburg in the middle of the 19th century ended in defeat for the individual. In principle, a person who stands out against the background of society is always not easy in life. And the problem is often not even in society itself, but in the crowd that enslaves the individual, leveling her individuality.

Society tends to acquire animal features, turning into a flock, then into a herd.

Being a flock, society overcomes adversity, confronts enemies, gains power and wealth.

Becoming a herd or a crowd, society loses its individuality, self-consciousness and freedom. Sometimes without even realizing it.

Man and society are inseparable components of being. They were, are and will change and transform for a very long time in search of an optimal model of existence.

List of topics of the final essay in the direction "Man and Society":

• Man for society or society for man?
• Do you agree with the opinion of L.N. Tolstoy: “Man is unthinkable outside of society”?
• What books, in your opinion, are able to influence society?
• Public opinion rules people. Blaise Pascal
• Don't rely on public opinion. This is not a lighthouse, but wandering lights. André Maurois
• "The level of mass depends on the consciousness of the units." (F. Kafka)
• Nature creates man, but society develops and shapes him. Vissarion Belinsky
• Men of character are the conscience of society. Ralph Emerson
• Can a person remain civilized outside of society?
• Can one person change society? Or one in the field is not a warrior?

List of basic literature for the direction of the final essay "Man and Society":

E. Zamyatin "We"

M. A. Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita"