He rejects metaphysical idealism which denies the validity of the material aspects of reality, just as he rejects
dialectical materialism in its totally mechanistic form, as it denies the spiritual aspects of reality.
Not exact matches
And it was
in this sense that Marx, advocating a
dialectical rather than a simplistic
materialism, stressed that «ideas become a material force once they have laid hold of the masses» (AD 74).
Georg Lukacs's claim that
dialectical materialism is the culmination of Western humanism would strike Solzhenitsyn as all too true, for
dialectical materialism makes explicit post-Enlightenment humanity's quest to remake the world
in people's false self - images as creatures of reason.
Survival of the fittest, the law of instincts and habits, social process,
dialectical materialism, cultural cycles — all work together to form a more tenacious and oppressive belief
in fate than has ever before existed, a fate which leaves man no possibility of liberation but only rebellious or submissive slavery.
Two biologists, Levins and Lewontin (1985), reject Cartesian reductionism
in favor of
dialectical materialism.
He wrote, «Every moment is no doubt a passing link
in the great flux, but is also an eternity
in itself», and added, «The method of
dialectical materialism informed by spirituality may unravel the movement of history; the method of spirituality informed by
dialectical materialism may raise the edifice of being» (Marx, Gandhi and Socialism p. 373 - 4.)
But from the beginning it's actually been conducted according to the rules of dialectic, as generally applied
in dialectical materialism.