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4/13/25
Dialectical Materialism-
https://youtu.be/bGPSKZgFH70?si=kYXafU_gjLnoz4Ca
Materialism: hard reality/ material conditions shape our ideas/ human thought
Idealism: our ideas (religion, culture) shape our material conditions
Philosophical debates center on which shapes the other; the material or the ideal?
Dialectics: dialogue, interaction; Hegel believed idealism comes first, but he understood back and forth relationship between ideal and material
Historical materialism: applying dialectical materialism to our understanding of history; how do hard economic realities shape how people thinks; and how do the ways we think impact how our economic realities
Marx subscribed to dialectical materialism; he believed material conditions were the primary shaper between itself and ideas, but he differentiated this from mechanical materialism; ideas still shape material conditions, but ideas are primarily shaped rather than shaper; itβs a dialectical relationship
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