On the Possibility of Transcendental Materialism Essay -- Philosophy P

On the Possibility of Transcendental MaterialismABSTRACT The conception of this address is to argue for the following theses (1) the concept of secretity can be associated non only with idealism simply also with materialism (2) such a connection was made possible by Karl Marxs theory and (3) in the maturation of Marxism up to now, theory has been tied to a political sweat, which is an error of principle, for what survives of it is a kind of social ethics which should more appropriately be called Marxism. high quality and immanence ar nonions of relationship. Values exist sensually above the senses e.g., the aesthetical value of a painting is not identical with the material of the probe and the oils on it, although it cannot exist without them. Persons who do not recognize values that are transcendent compared to the merely natural immanence or, to put it in other way, those for whom nothing is sacred are in fact not authentically human.IThe concept of transcendentality, as we know, was introduced by Immanuel Kant in Section sevener of his Introduction to his chef doeuvre, Kritik der reinen Vernunft, where he said that cognition is transcendental when it is occupied not so much with objects as with the mode of our knowledge of objects. He later examined the possibility of surpassing mere immanence without arriving in the sphere of an overcharge transcendence. Kants idealism is therefore neither immanent (subjective) nor transcendent (objective)-it is a transcendental idealism that seeks the potential and the limitations of cognition. This concept of transcendentality, although with certain modifications, remains unchanged in the subsequent development of German idealism, having in general preserved the formu... ...though it also supersedes it-much in the way of the Kantian idea of knowledge which always begins with apperception but then surpasses it theoretically. The assumption of at least a prevailing, if not existing, transcendence-in neo-Ka ntian impairment gelten-existieren-which emerges from the sphere of immanence and supersedes it, using that sphere as a basis, should be the essence of a transcendental materialism. And if Marxs thought is cleansed from the debris which the political movement has deposited on it, that is, if it takes shape as Marxianism, then from this approach Marxianism, owing to and toil the philosophical and cultural heritage it takes as its point of departure, may reach itself as a radical Protestant view, even a reading of God is dead theologies. Because, as the Czech Marxian philosopher Vitzslav Gardavsky said, God is not entirely dead.