Hegel & Marx
by Ted Winslow
Whitehead's ontology is "a scientific worldview." It's a sublation of
the scientific materialist form of science that includes, for instance,
a sublation of relativity and quantum theory.
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CB: So what is overcome and what is preserved ?
Charles Brown wrote:
Perhaps a scientific worldview enhances achievement of
self-determinaton
through greater mastery of necessity and thereby freedom. Radical
acknowledgement of objective reality implies the existence of
subjective
reality.
Darwin, Lewontin, Levin and Gould's work concern an area
by Ted Winslow
This misinterprets Whitehead. Like Marx's, his ontology is alternative to
and radically inconsistent with the "materialist" ontology that has
dominated science since the 17th century. In elaborating it, he provides a
systematic critique of this "scientific materialism" in all its fo
Jim Blaut wrote:
Think of the way we vilify or
ignore Dewey. Russell. Whitehead. Mead. The positivists. Etc. These
folks represent the main line of thinking in philosophies that are
friendly to science and are to one degree or another materialist
(although the word of course scared them). Nor are t
Louis Proyect wrote:
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> Jim Blaut
This reminds me of an argument I was never able to have with Jim. In the
context of a different discussion he remarked in a post on the marxism
list that if one knew all the facts involved one would not have to study
the relations among them. As I
ositions).
If somebody out there is vilifying Russell, Mead, Dewey, that's a horse on a different
colored list.
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When Marxists he
>Think of the way we vilify or
ignore Dewey. Russell. Whitehead. Mead.<
who is this "we"?
jd
When Marxists heap adulation on a reactionary, racist, anti-humanist
metaphysician and Prussian propagandist, then perhaps we have a slight
problem.
Sure, some of Hegel's ideas are built into Marx's thinking and later
Marxism. So are Aristotle's, Leibniz's, etc. Sure, Marx matured in an
atmosphere
Shane M. writes:
>In the depths of WW One Lenin felt called upon to study the Science
of Logic. He found it revelatory, and in his "Philosophical Notebooks"
he wrote (I quote from memory, perhaps inexactly):
>"It is impossible to understand Das Kapital without a thorough
comprehension of Hegel's
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That Hegel and Mar
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