Volume-XII, Issue-II, March 2026 |
A Journey Towards Superhuman: In the Light of Kazi Nazrul and Immanuel Kant Dr. Bhabesh Gayen, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal, India |
Received: 20.03.2026 | Accepted: 26.03.2026 | Published Online: 31.03.2026 | Page No: | ||||
DOI: 10.29032/ijhsss.vol.12.issue.02W. | |||||||
ABSTRACT | ||
Human beings want to be good. But do we want to keep everyone good? Nature has kept us well because of its uniformity principle rather than putting us in danger. But human beings have kept others’ hazards because of the contrast between their face and mask; they have also become entangled in the tangled web of masks. All the problems are because of the contrast between how people should behave and how people behave. One of the famous Bengali rebel poets, Kazi Nazrul Islam, understood the problem and wrote to show the direction of light in his literature, and German revolutionary thinker Immanuel Kant also felt the problem and wrote in detail in his Philosophical Discussion. The Western philosopher Immanuel Kant felt what the true moral principle of man should be, and he showed that the righteous are moral. That is, he declared a revolution against true religion and hypocrisy in the name of religion through his writings. Similarly, the famous Bengali poet Nazrul Islam also realized that the root of man's real subjugation lies in his own petty, immediate desires, animal instincts, etc. Only if they can suppress them will they become truly free. Everyone is subordinate to himself, to his own immediate desires, animal instincts, etc. Human beings must first abandon their own petty interests; only then can they overcome all obstacles. They can become a real man. Only then will overall development be possible. I have tried to show in this article how we are subordinate to ourselves. That is, only if we can suppress our own animal instincts can we conquer everything. In this article, I will try to analyze how Western and Eastern philosophers, Immanuel Kant and poet Nazrul, have presented their methods and principles for overcoming our own petty, immediate desires, animal instincts, etc., and becoming a true man. | ||
Keywords: Human Being, Animality, Rationality, Morality, Society |