From: "Phil Walden" <phil-AT-pwalden.fsnet.co.uk>
Subject: BHA: Correction
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 12:54:09 +0100


Towards the end of my post entitled "on Bhaskar on Hegel on Parmenides"
there is a sentence which reads:

"This split is addressed in the dialectical materialism of Joseph Dietzgen,
who put forward the view that spirit exists as part of matter, and that we
have a natural tendency to think that spirit is autonomous from matter, but
this is an illusion which we must oppose."

That sentence should have finished:

"....which we must oppose through the exercise of reflection."

Sorry about that.  The point is that we damage ourselves when we fall into
the illusion that our minds are autonomous from matter - matter being nature
including other human beings (living and dead) and their minds.  This
materialist position is opposed to the idealism of a Berkeley or a  Kant or
a Sartre in the sense that they artificially create a realm for "truth" in
which "truth" lies in some abstract realm of ideas posited as lying outside
the material universe.

Phil



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