That’s not generally how philosophy works. I’m just pointing out the basis of diamat as framed by Marx et al. You are free to hold whatever position you want, I don’t really care, but holding hard and fast to determinism and no free will is a rejection of diamat.
How? I am no mechanical materialist, I just didn’t realize I need to write an essay on dialectics to show such. Believing in “free” will is a rejection of diamat because it implies an entity beyond material reality with the power to control one’s body.
Mechanical materialist determinism is a rejection of dialectical materialism. I am not that, and thus you are debated what you assume is my position rather than what actually is. As another user pointed out it is foolish to be so arrogant to think humans are above the rest of the universe to be blessed with a “free will.” It is true we have wills, but they are not “free.”
In the “free will is incompatible with science” thread you linked early on, the only arguments for that case were overtly deterministic, as in the mechanical materialist determinism you’re referring to.
But okay let’s say it was a miscommunication. Marxism is very much focused on agency to foment revolution but grounding it a material analysis (and the interplay between both). What is your point? Just that agency exists within the confines of material conditions? I don’t think that was communicated at all lol
My point is that if we are materialists there is no reason for us to believe in free will. Some hard determinist arguments make total sense they are just far too optimistic about how easily the world is known. Dialectics complicates things and brings us closer to the truth of how the universe works.
I agree, the question is whether the word “agency” implies free will or not. I recognize “wills” with agency, but “free” implies it is beyond the material world in part.
Exactly, but where does dialectics debunk determinism. It’s very easy to have a dialectical view of nature and still not believe in free will.
That’s not generally how philosophy works. I’m just pointing out the basis of diamat as framed by Marx et al. You are free to hold whatever position you want, I don’t really care, but holding hard and fast to determinism and no free will is a rejection of diamat.
How? I am no mechanical materialist, I just didn’t realize I need to write an essay on dialectics to show such. Believing in “free” will is a rejection of diamat because it implies an entity beyond material reality with the power to control one’s body.
I have said how several times already.
Mechanical materialist determinism is a rejection of dialectical materialism. I am not that, and thus you are debated what you assume is my position rather than what actually is. As another user pointed out it is foolish to be so arrogant to think humans are above the rest of the universe to be blessed with a “free will.” It is true we have wills, but they are not “free.”
In the “free will is incompatible with science” thread you linked early on, the only arguments for that case were overtly deterministic, as in the mechanical materialist determinism you’re referring to.
But okay let’s say it was a miscommunication. Marxism is very much focused on agency to foment revolution but grounding it a material analysis (and the interplay between both). What is your point? Just that agency exists within the confines of material conditions? I don’t think that was communicated at all lol
My point is that if we are materialists there is no reason for us to believe in free will. Some hard determinist arguments make total sense they are just far too optimistic about how easily the world is known. Dialectics complicates things and brings us closer to the truth of how the universe works.
So… not the thing I said? I honestly can’t tell. The relevance of this conversation to Marxism is in our part, and agency within, the dialectic.
I agree, the question is whether the word “agency” implies free will or not. I recognize “wills” with agency, but “free” implies it is beyond the material world in part.