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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.contingency doesn' exclude the fact that systems are interconnected, that they influence each other or that they evolve and collide; it...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.Contingency can be observed empirically, the changes of history, collapse and failure of communism, breakdowns of old systems and birth...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.also, it would be silly to deny that capitalism could end up, through some sort of metamorphosis, turning us all into serfs, for...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.i'm not indulging in any kind of apologetics about the beauties (or horrors) of free market either. it's just a dumb, amoral (but not...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.no, because those improvements (not just in Eastern Europe, but in many parts of the globe) were due to contingency, as a side effecy...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.you claim to reject foundationalism and fixed categories, but you insist that ‘matter as motion’ is ‘undeniably correct’ and exactly...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.because if you concede contradictions can resolve in non-teleological ways doesn’t your ‘asymmetrical dialectics’ collapse into simple...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.why must your asymmetrical contradictions resolve progressively toward higher syntheses, if not because you have smuggled hegel's...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.i mean, it's circular and endlessley self-referential loop. which is ok, because nothing can escape that. the problem is more the claim...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.if interconnectedness justifies using hegel’s theology to explain materialism, doesn’t your ‘matter-in-motion’ dissolve into the very...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.I don't deny it though
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.if your critique of ‘religious doom’ requires you to borrow hegel's theology and philosophy’s tools (Marx), isn't your ‘materialism’...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.obviously a foundational claim again
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.it's the same again. a claim made from within certain hegelian framework with no possibility of being proven (or disproven) if you step...
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Ggermaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.if your "matter-in-motion’" is beyond philosophy, why does explaining it require Hegel’s dialectics and his idealist theology?