"The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure" – Frederick Engels, "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"
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A very important discussion by Engels about materialism:
1892 English Edition Introduction to Frederick Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"
[General Introduction and the History of Materialism]
#socialism #communism #capitalism #marxism #materialism #theism #agnostic #religion #god #atheism
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/int-mat.htm
www.marxists.orgSocialism: Utopian and Scientific (Introduction - Materialism)
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So are you going take action against people to fix the world?
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This bloke is inconsiderate and as insane as other victims of capitalism >
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What remains of organized #Christianity is bad both from a communist POV because it's idealist & represents #conservative & #reactionary social forces from a psycho-spiritual POV because it forcefully substitutes oppressive #dogma for firsthand ecstatic self-knowledge.
#Materialism is just better.
#Dualism is the view that the #mind is completely separate from the #body or #brain and is entirely non-physical in nature... #descartes #psychology #neuroscience #intentionality #spatiality #Qualia #materialism #philosophy #philosophyofmind
https://philosophyindefinitely.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/dualism/
philosophy indefinitely · Dualism…Philosophy of mind – Dualism Mental things uniquely display the quality of intentionality and are non-spatial in character. Spatiality sets the stage for the theory or doctrine of dualism.
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.; Racism, Materialism, Militarism; letterpress on map, Detroit, 2014.
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I've got a small appliance that has died just short of its warranty period. The maker has been responsive. They're offering me a new one. Which is great, I guess.
But to get the replacement, they want me to cut the cord off the old one, and to send them a picture showing that I've done it.
I never held out much hope that they would offer to repair the thing. But my active participation in this wasteful system feels like a crime. I'm expected to personally turn something that _almost_ works into un-recyclable trash.
It doesn't make me keen to acquire more of their products, it makes me wish I had never acquired this one in the first place.
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Impressive debut!
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It's scary to think about this, but it's likely true. Our consciousness is a product of the collective biological processes of our bodies, and once those biological processes no longer function (i.e. once we die), we will no longer be conscious. We can't comprehend not being conscious forever, so some of us imagine we'll be conscious in an afterlife, while others accept the uncomfortable yet undeniable truth of the finiteness of our consciousness.
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Reality is not subjective, despite our perceptions of reality being subjective. There is an objective reality that we can verify through empirical analysis and peer review.
I have no idea if there is a God or an afterlife. All I know is that I have no rational reason to believe in them because there is no sufficient evidence to support the existence of either. Therefore, I am an atheist and a materialist. I have no burden of proof. The burden of proof is on the theists and believers in the afterlife.
“Whatever the nature of matter may be, the primal reality of all things is mind.”
Are there any philosophers/thinkers here who have read David Bentley Hart’s latest book? I would be very interested to hear what more educated thinkers think of this book, especially those familiar with the mind/matter debate.