On Jul 30, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Shane Mage wrote:
On Jul 30, 2012, at 2:11 PM, c b wrote:
http://www.marxists.org/subject/japan/uchida/index.htm
Hiroshi Uchida (1988)
Marx's Grundrisse and Hegel's Logic
In 1916 Lenin, in the margins of his copy of Hegel's The Science of
Logic, made perhaps his most profound, and surely his most ignored
[including by Uchida], statement: "It is impossible to understand
Marx's Das Kapital without a profound grasp of Hegel's Logic.
Consequently, fifty years later none of the Marxists have understood
Marx."
Fixated on Aristotle the empiricist, Uchida seems hypnotized by the
materialist illusion still present in the earliest Marx:
In The holy family of 1845 he discusses Hegel's mode of
presentation, writing, for example, that many forms of fruit really
exist, so 'man' may abstract 'fruit in general' as an idea. Hegel,
however, reverses the process, insisting that at the beginning 'fruit
in general' exists as substance, and it posits many particular forms
of fruit as positive subjects. Marx reveals the secret of Hegel's
philosophy, which presupposes an ideal subject par excellence, even
though this subject is in reality a 'thought-product' or abstraction
that exists merely in the mind.
For Aristotle, the concept of "fruit," like all universals, is a
convenient label to cover perceived-as-similar phenomena. While
this may reflect how primitive humans formed concepts it is, in an
evolving reality, totally unscientific. Fruits existed for eons
before humans and no empirical generalization can be formed from
unexperienced phenomena. Fruit is a necessary evolutionary
consequence of the existence of seed-bearing (flowering) plants and
as such has always existed "ideally" as a *possibility* inherent to
the laws governing the evolution of life (and of course, actualized
through the line of evolution followed by our planet). These laws
are substantial--they exist independent of any temporal particular
material reality. Hegel here is the Platonist (idea=substance) and
it is that line of thought, not Aristotle's, that is in this case,
as in so many others, "fruitful."
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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