II. A Meditation upon two passages in Capital...To appreciate Marx as ironist — like Socrates contrasted to Aristotle, Professor Wolff might say — it is useful to recall that Marx was a thorough-going 19th century materialist who was quite aware that the world was still in the throes of the Renaissance transition from the medieval theological and philosophical age to the modern scientific age.
That transition, while along, is not yet complete and is manifesting as the dialectic between the traditional and the liberal. What emerges from this dialectic will be something new that bears resemblance to its parents but as emergent will be unpredictably new. That is to say the result will be synergetic rather than synthetic. It will be a feature of the digital age that is now being born as the analog age passes into history.
Marx still has a role to play in this.
The Philosopher's Stone
ECONOMIC-PHILOSOPHIC MANUSCRIPT OF 1978 AS IT WERE PART II
Robert Paul Wolff
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“the world was still in the throes of the Renaissance transition from the medieval theological and philosophical age to the modern scientific age. That transition, while along, is not yet complete and is manifesting as the dialectic between the traditional and the liberal.”
Science doesn’t use the dialectic method... scientists use scientific method liberalism uses the dialectic method... the two methods currently are operating in contrast...
If the aircraft is on the ground and a bunch of people dead none of the scientists involved will be seen to argue to make no adjustment... everyone is in agreement that some adjustment will have to be made before the next trial... then they work together to figure it out...
That is not the method a liberal education employs...
Nobody at Boeing has spent the last year writing a book titled “The 737 Max Myth!”.... or “The myth of the MCAS!”....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_education
Bla bla bla bla....
Marx would say "leave me out of this".
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