Re: On natural science

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

reads like Humean instrumentalism to me.............

Ian
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> Sabri
>
> I want to add Marx's early article.  Please read this
>
> The natural sciences have developed an enormous activity and have
> accumulated an ever-growing mass of material. Philosophy, however, has
> remained just as alien to them as they remain to philosophy. Their
momentary
> unity was only a chimerical illusion. The will was there, but the
power was
> lacking. Historiography itself pays regard to natural science only
> occasionally, as a factor of enlightenment, utility, and of some
special
> great discoveries. But natural science has invaded and transformed
human
> life all the more practically through the medium of industry; and has
> prepared human emancipation, although its immediate effect had to be
the
> furthering of the dehumanisation of man. Industry is the actual,
historical
> relationship of nature, and therefore of natural science, to man. If,
> therefore, industry is conceived as the exoteric revelation of man's
> essential powers, we also gain an understanding of the human essence
of
> nature or the natural essence of man. In consequence, natural science
will
> lose its abstractly material ― or rather, its idealistic
― tendency, and
> will become the basis of human science, as it has already become
― albeit
> in an estranged form ― the basis of actual human life, and to
assume one
> basis for life and a different basis for science is as a matter of
course a
> lie. <The nature which develops in human history ― the
genesis of human
> society ― is man's real nature; hence nature as it develops
through
> industry, even though in an estranged form, is true anthropological
nature.>
>
> Sense-perception (see Feuerbach) must be the basis of all science.
Only when
> it proceeds from sense-perception in the two-fold form of sensuous
> consciousness and sensuous need ― is it true science. All
history is the
> history of preparing and developing "man" to become the object of
sensuous
> consciousness, and turning the requirements of "man as man" into his
needs.
> History itself is a real part of natural history of nature developing
into
> man. Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science
of
> man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural
> science: there will be one science.
>
> Man is the immediate object of natural science; for immediate,
sensuous
> nature for man is, immediately, human sensuousness (the expressions
are
> identical) ― presented immediately in the form of the other
man sensuously
> present for him. Indeed, his own sense-perception first exists as
human
> sensuousness for himself through the other man. But nature is the
immediate
> object of the science of man: the first ― object of man
― man ― is
> nature, sensuousness; and the particular human sensuous essential
powers can
> only find their self-understanding in the science of the natural world
in
> general, just as they can find their objective realisation only in
natural
> objects. The element of thought itself ― the element of
thought's living
> expression ― language ― is of a sensuous nature. The
social reality of
> nature, and human natural science, or the natural science of man, are
> identical terms.
>
> <It will be seen how in place of the wealth and poverty of political
economy
> come the rich human being and the rich human need. The rich human
being is
> simultaneously the human being in need of a totality of human
manifestations
> of life ― the man in whom his own realisation exists as an
inner necessity,
> as need. Not only wealth, but likewise the poverty of man ―
under the
> assumption of socialism ― receives in equal measure a human
and therefore
> social significance.
>
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