File spoon-archives/marxism2.archive/marxism2_1996/96-07-10.220, message 195


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.



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