From: "jamesdaly" <james.daly-AT-ntlworld.com> Subject: Re: BHA: Religious sensibility?? Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 19:11:55 +0100 ----- Original Message ----- 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 > > > --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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