What is the Basic Requirement in Approaching the World from the Viewpoint of Man’s Interests?

The basic requirement is to regard it as the supreme principle to defend man’s independent demands and interests in all activities and to subordinate all to the realization of man’s independent aspirations and demands. President Kim Il Sung said:

Man is the most precious being in the world. Everything in the world has value only when it benefits man and serves him. Therefore, it must be established as the supreme principle to defend man’s independent rights and interests and everything in the world must be subordinated to bringing about man’s independent aspirations and demands.

The basic requirement is, first, to regard it as the supreme principle to defend man’s independent rights and interests in all activities. In other words it is to regard it as the basic purpose to realize the independent rights and demands of man in all activities of cognition and practice.

The basic purpose of cognitive and practical activities is to realize the independent demands and interests of man, the master of the world. The cognitive and practical activities of man proceed from the independent rights and interests of human being and orient to their realization. Therefore man should regard it as the supreme principle and basic purpose to safeguard and realize his independent rights and interests in the cognitive and practical activities.

In order to do that, they should evaluate the values of matter and phenomena of the world on the basis of independent demands and interests of man. Nothing is more valuable than the interests of man in the world. Everything in the world has its value as long as it serves to realize the interests of man. Only when they judge the matter and phenomena in view of man’s independent demand, can they evaluate the values of matter and phenomena on the basis of interests of man.

The basic requirement is also to subordinate all to the realization of man’s independent aspirations and demands.

In other words they should conduct the cognitive and practical activities in the direction of contributing to the realization of independent aspiration of man.

Even though one regards it as the supreme principle and most important purpose to defend and realize the independent rights and interests of man, it is never realized spontaneously. If one fails to act in conformity with correct purpose in transforming nature and society, he cannot contribute to the interests of man. Therefore, only when one conducts the cognitive and practical activities with the aim of realizing man’s independent aspirations and demands, can he make the world serve man.