[lbo-talk] * Materialism and Empirio-Criticism*

[Chris Doss]

>>Isn't this idealism the logical implication of the kind of "materialism" 
>>CB is defending i.e. doesn't the conception of reality involved require 
>>experience (including experience of time and space) to be interpreted as 
>>consisting wholly of experience of secondary qualities and not at all of 
>>direct experience of "reality"?
>>
>>If this is true, the implication for epistemology is solipsism - 
>>"solipsism of the present moment" actually.

Actually, if you follow the Kant-Hegel-Marx historical timeline, the logical 
outcome of transcendental idealism is dialectical materialism. :)

Or absolute idealism, or neo-Kantianism, or Schopenhaueranism, or logical 
positivism, or phenomenology. You can take Kant in all kinds of different 
ways.

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