[lbo-talk] Switching Sides

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huh. i was taught that his hegel was filtered through aristotle. hence, the 
heavy reliance on aristotle's physus to understand causation in history.

At 10:54 AM 4/29/2012, Ted Winslow wrote:
>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> > But isn't your Aristotle filtered through Aquinas & Dante?
>
>I don't know about Carl's Aristotle, but Marx's is filtered through Hegel 
>for whom history is an "incalculable medial discipline of the intellectual 
>and moral powers" and "law and morality ... are in and for themselves, 
>universal existences, objects and aims; which are discovered only by the 
>activity of thought, separating itself from the merely sensuous, and 
>developing itself, in opposition thereto; and which must on the other 
>hand, be introduced into and incorporated with the originally sensuous 
>will, and that contrarily to its natural inclination." 
>http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hi/history4.htm