Dialectical logic: part and whole | The ABCs of Marxist philosophy (Part 7)
Channel: The Communist
Date: 2021-08-18

Thought is inherently about generalisation and universals. It takes us beyond the immediacy of the here and now, and links things. This contradiction - between part and whole, individual and type - is at the heart of philosophy’s deepest problems. The need to grasp reality as a complex whole, instead of as atomised, self-contained parts, is likewise one of the deepest problems for science.

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