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Marx is the opposite of the kind of reference you want if you want to reject dialectical thinking. That was Marx's whole deal.
by naravara 4y ago
Marx is the opposite of the kind of reference you want if you want to reject dialectical thinking. That was Marx's whole deal.
- k__ 4y agoAh. What I wanted to say was: I know a bunch of people who argument from Marx perspective of dialectical thinking. But the comment I replied to gave me the impression, dialectical thinking was fundamentally flawed. So, I was interested where this flaw lies and how it might proof Marx wrong.
- rgrieselhuber 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31479769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31479769
- rgrieselhuber 4y agoAnother work that is more formal is Maximus’s Ambigua, written largely in response to Origen’s Neoplatonism. Origen was rather fixated on the idea of either precarnate good vs. fallen flesh (those are your two options, another version of Gnosticism basically). Maximus offers the solution of transcending simple dialectics because free will allows one to choose from more than one good. In general, discomfort with ambiguity and free will reveals a lot about a person, society, organization, etc.