>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/31/05 07:48AM >>> > >>from page 283: >>"A consistently materialist conception of thought, of course, alters the >>approach to the key problems of logic in a cardinal way, in particular to >>interpretation of the nature of logical categories. Marx and Engels >>established above all that [the] external world was not given to the >>individual as it was in itself simply and directly in his contemplation, >>but only in the course of its being altered by man: and that both the >>contemplating man himself and the world contemplated were products of >>history."
^^^^^^^^ CB: "History" here being critically SOCIO-history, i.e. not just the individual doing the logic , but many people. A key Marxist modification of the notion of logic is that it is not the product of an individual brain, or the qualities of an individual organ, but the product of many people's experiences, including people who are dead at the time the particular individual in question is doing the logic. "History" here refers to people who "are history", i.e. dead. Not just practice, but SOCIAL practice. Not just the result of one human's interaction and alteration of nature, but of many people's interaction and alteration of nature. ^^^^^^^^ >> >>from page 285: >>"Psychological analysis of the act of reflexion of the external world in >>the individual head therefore cannot be the means of developing logic. >>The individual thinks only insofar as he has already mastered the general >>(logical) determinations historically moulded before him and completely >>independently of him. And psychology as a science does not investigate >>the development of human culture or civilisation, rightly considering it >>a premise independent of the individual." CB: "does not" or "does" ? For Marxism there is only social psychology, no individual psychology separate from social psych. >> >>from page 286-287: >>"In labour (production) man makes one object of nature act on another >>object of the same nature in accordance with their own properties and >>laws of existence. Marx and Engels showed that the logical forms of man's >>action were the consequences (reflection) of real laws of human actions >>on objects, i.e. of practice in all its scope and development, laws that >>are independent of any thinking. Practice understood materialistically, >>appeared as a process in whose movement each object involved in it >>functioned (behaved) in accordance with its own laws, bringing its own >>form and measure to light in the changes taking place in it." > > >_______________________________________________ >Marxism-Thaxis mailing list >Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu >To change your options or unsubscribe go to: >http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
