Carrol asks:
How do you interpret this distinction? A guess: Diesing's translation
emphasizes that "the truth" as a static entity does not exist but is
rather a constantly changing process, with which it is possible (more or
less) to align the mind, but that alignment will be more or less untrued
just as it occurs. Or is it nonsense to try for an interpretation of the
difference?
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That's pretty much the sense I've got from Diesing so far, whose clarity is
exemplary. The book in question is "Hegel's Dialectical Political Economy"
(Westview Press, 1999) which, so far, looks like a very good, accessible
introduction to dialectical reasoning in social research. Diesing rejects
the caricature of Hegel as a determinist, and he makes use of David
MacGregor's interesting work which highlights the commonalities between
Hegel and Marx in their respective methods and treatments of economic
development.
Michael K.
