Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 15:01:08
Subject: Re: BHA: Response to CCR Conference



ON PRACTICE   by Mao Zedong  July 1937

The Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism has two outstanding
characteristics. One is its class nature: it openly avows that dialectical
materialism is in the service of the proletariat. The other is its
practicality: it emphasises the dependence of theory on practice,
emphasises that theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice.
The truth of any knowledge or theory is determined not by subjective
feelings, but by objective results in social practice. Only social practice
can be the criterion of truth. The standpoint of practice is the primary
and basic standpoint in the dialectical materialist theory of knowledge. 

But how then does human knowledge arise from practice and in turn serve
practice?


At 11.45 1999-08-29 +0200, you wrote:
>
>Hi Mervyn and all,
>
>It seemed to me, many presentations were too epistemologically 
>loaded, which is quite understandable  when thinking persons 
>in the conference; many of them were some kind of academicians, 
>who tried to organize their personal thoughts before all. 
>Not paying much attention in their presentations in their own 
>empirical social contexts and ethical problems, as if there would 
>be a general scientific world in the critical realist sense 
>without dialectics. 
>
>Merwyn Hartwig:
>
>Hi all,
>> 
>> Hows about (as is almost traditional now!) people who attended the
>> Conference offering their thoughts on it for the benefit of those who
>> didn't? Warning: anything you say might be taken down and published in
>> *Alethia*....
>> -- 
>> Mervyn Hartwig
>> Editor, 'Alethia'
>> Newsletter of the International Association for Critical Realism
>> 13 Spenser Road
>> Herne Hill
>> London SE24 ONS
>> United Kingdom
>> Tel: 44 (0)171 737 2892
>> Email: mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk
>> 
>> 
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