File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1997/97-02-10.192, message 54


Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:18:23 -0500 (EST)
From: "Chris M. Sciabarra" <sciabrrc-AT-is2.NYU.EDU>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: M-SCI: DIALECTICS OF NATURE & SCIENTIFC THEOR


On Sat, 25 Jan 1997 davidmbr-AT-sprynet.com wrote:
>   Marcuse argues persuasively that Hegel had rediscovered
> the extremely dynamic quality of Aristotle's original metaphysic in this
> regard.  
> Chris, I quoted chapter and verse from SCIENCE AND LOGIC on MDOP to show that 
> Hegel was explicitly anti-Aristotelian on Aristotelian logic.  How can you say 
> that he simply "rediscovered" Aristotle?
	Don't know if we want to revisit this entirely, but I think a good
case can be made that Hegel certainly rediscovered very important
concepts in Aristotle... despite the fact that his own idealism and
spiritualism seriously undercuts whatever realist elements that exist in
his corpus.  This said, I am simply suggesting that the dynamics that
Hegel emphasizes are NOT to be counterposed to some fictional Aristotle
who was a pure formalist and static thinker.  That Aristotle never
existed; he was always a dynamic thinker, and a grand dialectical one at
that.
					- Chris
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