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

Chris Doss itschris13 at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 1 08:19:18 PDT 2003



>>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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