Rosa Lichtenstein
20th April 2006, 17:20
Is it really true that light-bulbs can change themselves?
It seems they can if Woods and Grant are correct:
"Dialectics explains that change and motion involve contradiction and can only take place through contradictions.... Dialectics is the logic of contradiction....
"So fundamental is this idea to dialectics that Marx and Engels considered motion to be the most basic characteristic of matter.... [Referring to a quote from Aristotle] [t]his is not the mechanical conception of motion as something imparted to an inert mass by an external 'force' but an entirely different notion of matter as self-moving....
"The universal phenomena of the unity of opposites is, in reality, the motor-force of all motion and development in nature. It is the reason why it is not necessary to introduce the concept of external impulse to explain movement and change -- the fundamental weakness of all mechanistic theories. Movement, which itself involves a contradiction, is only possible as a result of the conflicting tendencies and inner tensions which lie at the heart of all forms of matter....
"...Matter is self-moving and self-organising." [Woods and Grant 'Reason In Revolt', (Wellred Publications, 1995), pp.43-45, 47, 68, 72. Emphases added.]
Perhaps matter has been possessed by a Poltergeist?
Is this the spectre that haunts dialectical materialism?
I suspect so.
For those interested, this lamentable 'theory' has been subjected by me to yet more materialist torture in a new Essay I have just posted ("Change Through Internal Contradiction"); it can be accessed here:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosa.l/page%2008_01.htm (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosa.l/page%2008_01.htm)
Axel, you can come out from under the bed-clothes now.
The scarey bit is over....
It seems they can if Woods and Grant are correct:
"Dialectics explains that change and motion involve contradiction and can only take place through contradictions.... Dialectics is the logic of contradiction....
"So fundamental is this idea to dialectics that Marx and Engels considered motion to be the most basic characteristic of matter.... [Referring to a quote from Aristotle] [t]his is not the mechanical conception of motion as something imparted to an inert mass by an external 'force' but an entirely different notion of matter as self-moving....
"The universal phenomena of the unity of opposites is, in reality, the motor-force of all motion and development in nature. It is the reason why it is not necessary to introduce the concept of external impulse to explain movement and change -- the fundamental weakness of all mechanistic theories. Movement, which itself involves a contradiction, is only possible as a result of the conflicting tendencies and inner tensions which lie at the heart of all forms of matter....
"...Matter is self-moving and self-organising." [Woods and Grant 'Reason In Revolt', (Wellred Publications, 1995), pp.43-45, 47, 68, 72. Emphases added.]
Perhaps matter has been possessed by a Poltergeist?
Is this the spectre that haunts dialectical materialism?
I suspect so.
For those interested, this lamentable 'theory' has been subjected by me to yet more materialist torture in a new Essay I have just posted ("Change Through Internal Contradiction"); it can be accessed here:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosa.l/page%2008_01.htm (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosa.l/page%2008_01.htm)
Axel, you can come out from under the bed-clothes now.
The scarey bit is over....