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 | | Representative Paradigms (Religion): Secular religions like Dialectical Materialism, and, to a lesser extent, Humanism and Extropianism | | | Scientistic Materialism asserts that all the claims of the religious and spiritual traditions of humanity throughout the ages are false. | | | In the Western world at least, Materialism is derived mainly from Protestant Christianity; a religion that postulates a God who works in a rational, lawful way, and reveals his teachings through a single Revelation, the Bible. |
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| | HUMANISM, IDEALISM, MATERIALISM |
| | Dialectical materialism is still on the rise and is sustained as the official doctrine of all totalitarian communist countries. | | | For mild or extreme materialists to ignore this aspect of the mind is to leave materialism where it remains today: the fundamental expression of faith, amenable neither to experience nor argument--a secular theology allied with science. | | | This epistemological materialism asserts that all statements must be meaningful, and that to be meaningful a statement must be intersubjectively testable (the so-called verifiability principle, which is supposed to carve away metaphysics). |
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| | Rupert Sheldrake Online |
| | dialectical materialism: A form of materialism that sees matter not as something static, on which change and development have to be imposed, but as, containing within its own nature those tensions or "contradictions" that provide the motive force for change. | | | materialism: The doctrine that whatever exists is either matter or entirely dependent on matter for its existence. | | | In the philosophy of materialism, matter is the substance and basis of all reality, and is usually conceived of in the spirit of atomism. |
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| | Paul N. Siegel: The Meek and the Militant (Chap.2) |
| | For dialectical materialism, on the other hand, change is not merely repetitive. | | | Dialectical materialism holds that every scientific theory is only a rough approximation of reality, an approximation which becomes more and more close to the truth as scientific knowledge advances, but that this greater closeness to the truth is that only compared to the previous theory. | | | Among the religious illusions which Marxist materialism dispels are those of modernist Christianity, a modification of the earlier Christianity attacked by the French materialists. |
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| | Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Chapter 5; The Recent Revolution In Natural Science And Philosophical Idealism |
| | But dialectical materialism insists on the approximate, relative character of every scientific theory of the structure of matter and its properties; it insists on the absence of absolute boundaries in nature, on the transformation of moving matter from one state into another, which is to us apparently irreconcilable with it, and so forth. | | | Let us cite two examples of the way in which the new physics wavers unconsciously and instinctively between dialectical materialism, which remains unknown to the bourgeois scientists, and “phenomenalism,” with its inevitable subjectivist (and, subsequently, directly fideist) deductions. | | | But we must not forget that, apart from the general prejudices against materialism common to all educated philistines, the most outstanding theoreticians are handicapped by a complete ignorance of dialectics. |
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| | dialectical materialism: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | dialectical materialism is mentioned in the following topics: | | | Dialectical materialism is the philosophical basis of Marxism as defined by later Communists and their Parties (sometimes called "orthodox" Marxism). | | | Dialectical materialism was foreshadowed in Taoism, an ostensibly materialistic philosophical system which, being free of supernatural elements, posits a naturalistic unity of complementary polarities known as Yin and Yang. |
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| | French Marxists dutifully imitated Stalin's formulation of diamat.[14] Revolutionary theory was schematized into two parts: dialectical materialism, a phrase never used by Marx, and historical materialism. | | | He called this position "naturalism or humanism," as against "idealism and materialism." If concrete man in contemporary society was actually homo economicus, that was a specific realization of man open to criticism. | | | French commentators on the 1844 Manuscripts saw in Marx's idea of alienation the basis for generating a new Marxism that could be reconciled with their own, not always Marxist, positions. |
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| | Materialism Bibliography |
| | The book is an addition to Marxists dialectical materialism and historical materialism in the light of new scientific and social developments. | | | Materialism languished throughout the medieval period, but the Epicurean tradition was revived in the 17th century in the atomistic materialism of the French Catholic priest Pierre Gassendi (1592 1655). | | | He produced one of the most systematic philosophies of the early modern period--an almost completely consistent description of nature, man, and civil society according to the tenets of mechanistic materialism. |
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| | DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM |
| | Dialectical materialism's theory of movement is in opposition first of all with philosophical idealism and with the theological concepts of religion. | | | Materialism, on the other hand, is the world view of the revolutionary class; in a class society, it grows and develops in the midst of an incessant struggle against the reactionary philosophy of idealism. | | | The earliest appearance of idealism was the product of the ignorance and superstition of savage and primitive man. Then, with the development of the productive forces, and the ensuing development of scientific knowledge, it stands to reason that idealism should decline and be replaced by materialism. |
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| | Materialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Dialectical materialism (See also Marxist philosophy of nature.) | | | "Materialism" has also frequently been understood to designate an entire scientific, "rationalistic" world view, particularly by religious thinkers opposed to it and also by Marxists. | | | Vitzthum, Richard C. (1995) Materialism: An Affirmative History and Definition. |
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| | The relation between materialism and idealism — www.LastSuperPower.net |
| | Dialectical materialism is the synthesis of these two opposites – not in the wishy washy sense of being a “middle road” but in the sense of breaking sharply from both. | | | “It (the use of the dialectical method by scientists) can come about spontaneously, by the sheer force of the natural-scientific discoveries themselves, which refuse any longer to allow themselves to be forced into the old Procrustean bed of metaphysics. | | | None of us disagree that the relationship is dialectical (this is not a contentious proposition) and that in consequence the relationship is characterised by struggle and transformation in an ascending spiral of development. |
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| | Both historical materialism and social constructionism are neither materialist nor idealist precisely because they bridge the gap between the two, demonstrating that the distinction is either analytical (which is useful if kept at this level) or a false dichotomy (when treated objectively). | | | I did say that the cosmic idealist (dialectical materialist) believes that the thought-products reflect the underlying material structure of the brain, and that since the universe is guided by the laws of the dialectic, then the subjective must necessarily correspond with the objective. | | | Second, he wanted to move away from Feuerbach's vulgar materialism that argued that consciousness was a by-product of the material constitution of our brains and that the laws of nature were reflected in our thoughts. |
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| | Satanic Reds |
| | Dialectical Materialism ( Diamat) is the official philosophy or analytical method of the Satanic Reds. | | | Dialectical Materialists, as materialists, involve no spirit or vital forces, but are purely material; they'd also view what we call the Dark Force as something purely material (see article: " Dark Force, Entropy, an end to this argument " on our website in the Dark Tradition section). | | | Materialism in this sense does not refer to greed or the common meaning that spiritual people put to it such as, "You are so materialistic." It means matter and energy, the material nature of reality itself and the constant changing and constant interaction of what is in our reality. |
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| | dialectical materialism articles on Encyclopedia.com |
| | In theory dialectical materialism is meant to provide both a general world view and a | | | dialectical materialism DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM [dialectical materialism] official philosophy of Communism, based on the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, as elaborated by G. Plekhanov, V. Lenin, and Joseph Stalin. | | | materialism MATERIALISM [materialism] in philosophy, a widely held system of thought that explains the nature of the world as entirely dependent on matter, the fundamental and final reality beyond which nothing need be sought. |
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| | Historical materialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Commentaries on different aspects of historical and dialectical materialism | | | Historical materialism (or what Marx himself called "the materialist conception of history"- materialistische Geschichtsauffassung) is a social theory and an approach to the study of history and sociology, normally considered the intellectual basis of Marxism. | | | Historical materialism looks for the causes of developments and changes in human history in economic, technological, and more broadly, material factors, as well as the clashes of material interests among tribes, social classes and nations. |
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| | MATERIALISM |
| | The historical materialism developed by Marx and Engels sought to formulate laws of social, economic and historical development, but did not defend metaphysical materialism (see DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM). | | | Many of the arguments that sustained earlier forms of materialism (including the assumption of causality as universal in nature) have been put in question. | | | Since it denies the existence of spiritual beings or forces, materialism typically is allied with atheism or agnosticism. |
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| | Haines Brown, Bibliography for Historical Materialism |
| | Given the history of physics in the earlier half of the twentieth century, it is not surprising it stimulated a discussion of dialectical materialism and of contradictions in particular. | | | For a brief popular discussion of matter defined as process, see for example, John D. Bernal, "Dialectical Materialism," in his The Freedom of Necessity (London, 1949), pp. | | | With a claim to universality, cosmology proves particularly instructive for a notion of historical materialism. |
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| | The Relationship of Dialectics and Emergentism |
| | Another example is Emergent Materialism of M. Bunge who propagates that the CNS is a system with properties that emerged in the course of evolution (see [Bunge1984]) | | | Emergentism and Dialectics are closely related: Emergence shows dialectical aspects because old system qualities are preserved (2) in the form of new ones and the system is lifted to a new level/state (3) by the emergence of new qualities. | | | For Marx and Engels the economic relations are the material basis of society, culture, religion, ideologies are seen as social superstructures which can only exist on an economic-material basis. |
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| | The old materialism was non-historical and non-dialectical (metaphysical, in the meaning of anti-dialectical), and did not adhere consistently and comprehensively to the standpoint of development; | | | Beginning with the years 1844-45, when his views took shape, Marx was a materialist and especially a follower of Ludwig Feuerbach, whose weak point he subsequently saw only in his materialism being insufficiently consistent and comprehensive. | | | To Marx, Feuerbach's historic and "epoch-making" significance lay in his having resolutely broken with Hegel's idealism and in his proclamation of materialism, which already "in the 18th century, particularly French materialism, was not only a struggle against the existing political institutions and against... |
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| | The Ism Book: D |
| | Dialectical Materialism (Doctrine in metaphysics and politics) — Dialectical materialism is the doctrine or theory of history espoused by Marxism. | | | Thus dialectical materialism is the doctrine that history progresses in stages that are based solely on the supremacy of different economic classes: i.e., feudalism replaced aristocracy, capitalism replaced feudalism, and socialism or communism will replace capitalism — all according to inexorable, immutable laws (see historical determinism). | | | Aristotelianism, by contrast, holds that mind and body are not two distinct substances but two aspects of the same thing, of the same complete human person (cf. |
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| | dialectical materialism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | In theory dialectical materialism is meant to provide both a general world view and a specific method for the investigation of scientific problems. | | | Communist scientists were expected to fit their investigations into this pattern, and official approval of scientific theories in the USSR was determined to some extent by their conformity to dialectical materialism (see Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich). | | | Historical materialism is deterministic; that is, it prescribes that history inevitably follows certain laws and that individuals have little or no influence on its development. |
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| | the historical materialism of Marx from the dialectical | | | But “historical materialism” has to do with “anthro- | | | the teaching of materialism on the original goodness and |
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| | Co-founder of Marxism (with Engels), dialectical materialism, alienation and exploitation of the worker, The Communist Manifesto | | | Marx's view of history, which came to be called the materialist interpretation of history (and which was developed further as the philosophy of dialectical materialism) is certainly influenced by Hegel's claim that reality (and history) should be viewed dialectically. | | | In The Essence of Christianity, Feuerbach argued that God is really a creation of man and that the qualities people attribute to God are really qualities of humanity. |
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| | Monism (Principle in metaphysics) — Monism is an answer offered to philosophical dualism by adherents of idealism and by adherents of materialism. | | | Mechanism (Doctrine in metaphysics) — Mechanism is the doctrine, derived from Cartesianism, that living things are essentially just machines. | | | Many Marxists claim that their philosophy is a form of humanism (and this understanding seems to have influenced the warm reception Marxism initially received in many parts of the world, e.g. |
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| | Philosophical Dictionary: Mao-Maximin |
| | German political philosopher who used an analysis of the alienation of labor and adherence to dialectical materialism as the bases for a trenchant criticism of capitalistic economic and political structures. | | | Sartre's French term for "bad faith," the culpable self-deception involved in declining to accept responsibility for one's choices. | | | Hence, for many philosophers of the Western tradition, material objects are substances that have the attribute of extension. |
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| | An example of dialectical materialism applied is the materialist conception of history. | | | With each epoch-making discovery even in the sphere of natural science, materialism has to change its form; and after history was also subjected to materialistic treatment, a new avenue of development has opened here, too. | | | Dialectics is the method of reasoning which aims to understand things concretely in all their movement, change and interconnection, with their opposite and contradictory sides in unity. |
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| | Two of the modern developments of materialism are dialectical materialism and physicalism, a position formulated by some members of the Logical Positivist movement. | | | A reaction against materialism was felt in the later years of the 18th cent., but the middle of the 19th cent. | | | Closely related to materialism in origin are naturalism and sensualism. |
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| | CULTURAL MATERIALISM |
| | Cultural materialism does not think all cultural changes result from dialectical contradictions but think that cultural evolution results from the gradual accumulation of useful traits through a process of trial and error. | | | In the 1970’s when cultural materialism was introduced, American anthropology split into two groups: those who argued for the humanities and those, including cultural materialists, who advocated an anthropology modeled on natural science. | | | Cultural Materialism is a scientific research strategy that prioritizes material, behavior and etic processes in the explanation of the evolution of human socio-cultural systems. |
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| | Jordan, Z.A., The Evolution of Dialectical Materialism | | | * Marx, K., “Critical Battle Against French Materialism”, Holy Family (II) | | | Foster, J.B., Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature |
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