Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:03:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Chris M. Sciabarra" <sciabrrc-AT-is2.NYU.EDU>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Popper's critique of Marxism (fwd)


On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, James Farmelant wrote:
> I wonder if Chris is familiar with the Soviet philosopher Igor Naletov's
> book *Alternatives to Positivism* (Moscow: Progress Books, 1984).
> Naletov's discussion of Popper's 'critical rationalism' notes that Popper
> started out with a strongly anti-Hegelian, strongly anti-dialectical
> viewpoint
> but Naletov contends that as Popper developed his philosophy further 
> especially in debate with the Vienna Circle he began to "...reproduce
> increasingly, though unconsciously, the ideas of German classical and, in
> particular, Hegelian dialectics.The more anti-positivistic he became, the
> louder sounded the Hegelian notes in his concept of objective knowledge,
> "inherent" knowledge, cosmic, physical, biological and cultural
> evolution."
> (pp. 256-7).  Naletov goes on to argue that this evolution in Popper's
> thought can be understood if we "... take into account the similarity of
> the
> situations in European bourgeois philosophy in the middle of the 20th
> and the early 19th centuries." (p. 257).
> Naletov makes it clear that he sees the evolution of Popper's thinking in
> the direction of dialectics as being rooted in his increasingly radical
> criticisms of positivism.

	Thanks James... I'll check that one out.  I would agree that as
Popper's viewpoint developed, it actually had some important parallels
with Hegel.  Generally, Popper is an "evolutionist" -- and even HE notes
the similarities between Hegel and Burke, in terms of their mutual
concerns for context and immanent development.  Very provocative lines of
development here.  
					- Chris -
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