Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 10:47:27 +0300 (EET DST) From: J Laari <jlaari-AT-cc.jyu.fi> Subject: Re: Dialectics of Nature -Forwarded -Reply I guess it depends on how one understands 'dialectics', as 'interaction' or laws of interaction, or as a way of categorise and conceptualise. Is it just a method, or does it provide some "deep insight" into nature of things. The one, who wrote lines below, seems to think that it's a question of something more than just conceptual method that is at core with dialectics? Jukka > Lisa, it was an echo of Hegels mistaken philosophy of nature. Marx > intended dialectics to operate only in the human realm, ie in the > area of social practice, Engels had a more metaphysical bent, Marx > was far more concrete. > Engels led to a lot of metaphysical problems in the USSR around the > questions of quantum physics. Dialectics really applies to the > critique of culture, politics, ideology etc. Nature cannot be said to > be dialectical without a leap into metaphysics of a large order; the > contention itself isn't provable and isn't of much heuristic value. --- from list marxism2-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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