Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 16:18:45 -0600
Subject: DN and Hegel


Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 12:18:33 GMT-700
From: hans despain <DESPAIN-AT-econ.sbs.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: Dialectics of Nature 

Hans:  Jerry a long while back said that Engels may 
have been influenced by Hegel's _Philosophy of Nature_, is this to 
doubted?  

Lisa:  Hans, thanks for addressing this point.  I could see in DN
that Engels mentions Hegel several times, and there are six entries
for works by Hegel in the bibliography, but I don't know much about
Hegel so I couldn't say much about the relations of their ideas.  I
guess this relation is what somebody was referring to by saying that
Engels was suffering from Hegel's [mistaken] natural philosophy.  

I'm not sure what "natural philosophy" or philosophy of nature means
to Hegel, or to anybody else.

Any volunteers to give us a few words on that?

Lisa


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