Re: BHA: what is the role of philosophy?

[Richard Moodey <moodey001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mervyn,

At 10:50 PM 05/13/2002 +0100, you wrote:

> This sounds exactly like Bhaskar's 'categorial realism'. So why is
> Bhaskar a subjective idealist and Hegel - not an objective idealist -
> but a materialist? In reality Hegel is by common consent an objective
> idealist, and Bhaskar imo is a metaphysical realist (full stop - neither
> materialist nor idealist, whether objective or subjective).

In the part of your post that I deleted, you said something about putting
spirit in a box with a lock on it.  I gather that you mean that this cannot
be done, and I think it can no more be done with Bhaskar than with
spirit.  As your post about his forthcoming books makes clear, he cannot be
locked into a box.   It makes sense to call him a "metaphysical realist,"
as long as we don't let the label become a box with a lock on it.

Regards,

Dick



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