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From: "jamesdaly" <james.daly-AT-ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: BHA: Religious sensibility??
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 19:11:55 +0100



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From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox-AT-ilstu.edu>
To: <bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: BHA: Religious sensibility??


>
>
> jamesdaly wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > A thorough study of Marx's historical materialist but humanist approach
to
> > the concept of progress
>
> I never understand what people mean by "humanist" in this context. Let
> me give two possible definitions (as I see it) as a way of asking what
> it means (i.e., any such definition must specifically rule out mine by
> offering something relatively concrete).
>
> 1. It means "nice" as opposed to "nasty," and ought therefore to be
> dropped in all discussions of marxism as being a merely an empty term of
> approval, and therefore redundant.
>
> 2. It means the conception(s) specifically repudiated by Marx in the
> Theses on Feuerbach, and ought therefore not be used in any discussion
> of marxism.
>
> Carrol
>
>
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