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Dialectical Materialism and Idealistic Naturalism

As this has come up lately and the presenter did a poor job, it became my task to outline the subject.

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Added by William Prest on October 1, 2012 at 5:52pm — No Comments

Idealistic Naturalism

We do not call ourselves Marxists, because Marx on his deathbed said he was not a Marxist due to the behaviour of Marxists who claimed to be following him. Engels defines Idealistic Naturalism in his work Dialectics on Nature.

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Added by William Prest on July 15, 2011 at 10:16pm — No Comments

Science and Mysticism

True science always seeks answers to the natural phenomena that we find around us. Further, the answers and hypotheses thus discovered must be able to stand up to rigorous and independent testing to become fact and established theory. These facts and theories can then serve as a guide for further enlightenment. Science must be unbiased and objective. Unfortunately, with economy at the base of everything, science can be prejudiced by subjective, interest oriented factors. We have even witnessed… Continue

Added by William Prest on January 25, 2010 at 6:43pm — No Comments

In Praise of Rudolf Steiner; Philosopher and Spiritual Seeker

Recently Rudolf Steiner was called an anti-Semite and this is fundamentally untrue. This appears to be a tactic to deflect and drive people away from reading about Rudolf Steiner, his philosophy, his awareness in many fields of endeavour and take on the humanist social question. It is also a subtle slap against anyone who delves into fields like mysticism, philosophy, occultism, the arts and spirituality. It is an attempt to achieve self censorship. The real import of this attack is against his… Continue

Added by William Prest on December 13, 2009 at 3:24am — No Comments

Quantifying Evil

“The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked” Jeremiah 17:3

There are many on the left who would deny that such a thing as ethics exists and that we need concern ourselves with noting else but the struggle for who controls surplus value that is created by the producers of the world in a strict materialist sense alone. They relegate the struggle between good and evil to the realm of myth, superstition and lies. To a great extent, we can understand what has caused… Continue

Added by William Prest on November 22, 2009 at 12:28am — No Comments