Dialectics Of Nature Research Articles

THE IMPLICITY OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRANSPARENCY OF BANK LENDING TO THE REAL SECTOR AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: WORLD EXPERIENCE

The modern development of the global economy is associated with multiple transformational challenges that raise the issue of ensuring an appropriate level of mutual trust between banking and industrial businesses. This issue is especially relevant for Ukraine, which is facing a crucial task - the post-war reconstruction of the national economy on the basis of sustainability, integrity and environmental friendliness. The aim of the paper is to identify implicit links between the transparency of bank lending to the real sector and economic development over the past 15 years in twelve countries, including Ukraine. This study is based on the correlation and regression tools for analysing relationships. As a result, the article confirms the hypothesis of the existence of significant cause-and-effect relationships between improving banking transparency, reducing corruption, growing economic freedom, increasing lending to the real sector and ensuring economic growth for a number of countries, regardless of their level of economic development. It has been found that in countries with steadily high corruption and economic freedom perception indices, the significance of the correlation with the development of bank lending to the real sector is lost. The reasons for deviations from the natural dialectic of the studied relationships are revealed in the example of India and Turkey. The peculiarities of their formation, preconditions and prospects for strengthening in Ukraine are highlighted. The contribution of the National Bank of Ukraine to increasing the level of transparency of lending activities of second-tier banks is investigated.

The Dialectics of Nature–Human Conflicts for Sustainable Water Security

How humans use and manage water resources under climate change conditions threatens water security, which means risking the availability of enough good-quality water for everybody and for nature’s flora and fauna. Integrated Water Resources Management is a state-of-the-art water management model. After 20 years in use, the application of this model failed to achieve its primary goal in many countries, i.e., ensuring the good ecological status of rivers, lakes, and aquifers. This paper shows that because the model is more human-centered than nature-oriented or anthropocentric, it generates severe environmental damages called “externalities.” From a historical analysis of the human–nature interplay, three main results were obtained: (1) the nature–human interaction is always in a state of contradictory confrontation, being composed of two opposite human behaviors of conflict and cooperation with nature; (2) this contradiction is assumed as a general ontological principle and epistemic hypothesis, called “dialectical”; and (3) historically, in the balance of power between nature and humans, three clusters are identified: (i) naturalistic, (ii) dualistic, and (iii) anthropocentric. A theory of a novel behaviorist conflict resolution model is suggested to dialectically resolve conflicts between stakeholders and natural laws. This model provides a harmonic symbiosis of humans and nature, removes environmental externalities, and can lead to sustainable water security. Three case studies illustrate the merits of the new dialectical model in real applications.

On Philosophy of Engineering from the Perspective of Discipline of Natural Dialectics

On Philosophy of Engineering from the Perspective of Discipline of Natural Dialectics

Looping Nature

The following paper attempts to articulate a distinctly materialist notion of ideology by way of re-visiting two texts that have been considered oddities, if not embarrassments, by the subsequent developments of their respective disciplines: Freud’s Project for a Scientific Psychology and Engels’ Dialectic of Nature. Both text are strikingly similar in their speculative engagement with the natural sciences and in their potential to inform a renewed engagement with the question of the relation between technology and life. What I want to propose here is that these texts can enrich our understand of a Marxist notion of ideology if read through recent philosophical thinking on new technological developments (Bernard Stiegler, Catherine Malabou) and the concept of recursivity (Yuk Hui). This approach will allow for a properly materialist footing of a critique of ideology — namely by performing a turn from a critique that is primarily concern with the question of how we can penetrate false appearances towards a materialist account of how (“false”) appearances, something like “real abstractions” (Alfred Sohn-Rethel), can emerge out of the “flat plane” of matter.

ІСТОРИКО-МЕТОДОЛОГІЧНІ ОСНОВИ ТРАКТУВАННЯ ІСТИНИ ПРЕДСТАВНИКАМИ АКАДЕМІЧНОЇ ФІЛОСОФСЬКОЇ КУЛЬТУРИ УКРАЇНИ ДРУГОЇ ПОЛОВИНИ ХХ СТОЛІТТЯ РАДЯНСЬКОЇ ДОБИ

B a c k g r o u n d . The current research focuses on Ukraine's academic philosophical culture in the second half of the 20th century during the Soviet era, emphasising the historical and methodological bases of truth interpretation by its representatives. Using descriptive methodology and comparative analysis, it was found that the Ukrainian academic philosophy of this period, represented here by the legacy of recognised figures often referred to in the philosophical literature as the Kyiv School of Philosophy, is a revival of philosophy in Ukraine based on so-called "authentic" Marxism-Leninism. M e t h o d s . In particular, to analyse the concept of truth, representatives of the Ukrainian academic philosophical culture of the studied period employed the dialectical method, which is interpreted in dialectical materialism through the concept of the "development" of the material universe. Specifically, within this dialectics of nature, dialectical negation is considered a stage of object development in which the achievements of the earlier stages are not eliminated but rather "removed" – contained within it. R e s u l t s . The interpretation of logic as a theoretical reflection of historical patterns in theoretical form enabled them to define truth as correspondence to reality and analyse it through the lens of the dialectical inter-transformation of the categories of subjective and objective, relative and absolute. The application of the dialectical method to the concepts of "relative" and "absolute" resulted in the identification of "relatively absolute," "absolutely relative" truth, and the opposition of the "relatively absolute truth" to the "absolutely absolute truth." They regard the latter – absolutely absolute truth – as an unreachable ideal that serves as a regulative principle, the pursuit of which promotes cognitive progress through the accumulation of partial, relative truths. C o n c l u s i o n s . Thus, in the second half of the 20th century, during the Soviet era, representatives of Ukraine's academic philosophical culture employed dialectical materialism methodology to define the concept of truth, allowing them to justify the process of cognition as complex and endless. At the same time, as representatives of that era's academic philosophy have emphasised, on the path to achieving relative truths, in addition to objective dialectical contradictions, there are also subjective formal-logical errors and mistakes that can only be distinguished from objective contradictions through practical verification.

Research on the cultivation path of innovative talents in sports training specialty from the perspective of natural dialectics

Research on the cultivation path of innovative talents in sports training specialty from the perspective of natural dialectics

La Dialéctica de la naturaleza de Engels como intento de normalización científica: una lectura kuhniana

In this paper I study Engels’ ideas on dialectical materialism, from the per-spective of Thomas Kuhn’s philosophy of science. I argue that Engels’ efforts, in works such as Anti-Düring or (even more so) in his Dialectics of Nature, are best understood as an attempt to crystalize a new scientific paradigm, in the sense that Kuhn (2000) gives to this last word. In order to do this, I start by identifying Marx’s previous statement regarding this topic. Then I present Kuhn’s concept of a “disciplinary matrix”. Thirdly, I apply the aforementioned concept to Engels’ work, identifying all the elements of the disciplinary matrix.

Rethinking dialectic in the 21st century: interpretation, method and scientific inquiry

This paper offers a rethinking of the concept of ‘dialectic’ in Marxist theory. It is often argued that in the work of Marx and Engels, ‘dialectic’ is a concept not explicitly defined. The lack of clarity has given rise to various interpretations that can be broadly distinguished into two currents: one current deals with dialectic in every part of reality and the other is concerned with dialectic as a method in Marx’s Capital. We explain that the main differences between the two currents are traced to Marx’s and Engels’ different understandings of dialectic. Accordingly, we attempt to clarify what constitutes dialectic as a method of scientific inquiry. Thus, the paper argues that dialectic as a method of scientific inquiry exists exclusively as systematic dialectic. From this point of view, its applicability is limited and linked to the specificity and stage of development of the given subject matter. Upon this theoretical argument, issues such as the dialectics of nature, the logic of Capital, ontologism and so forth, are discussed.

Engels and the Second Foundation of Marxism

Historical materialism, in the dominant twentieth-century narrative in the West, is understood as confined to social sciences and humanities. However, John Bellamy Foster writes, Marx and Engels did not have such a limited conception, instead engaging with the natural sciences, providing insight into the dialectics of nature.

Engels and the second foundation of Marxism

Since the 1920s Marxism has often been conceptualised, particularly within what has come to be known as the western Marxist philosophical tradition, in terms of a narrow historical materialism, directed exclusively at human-social existence. It was thus severed from the wider realm of dialectical materialism or materialist dialectics, concerned with what Karl Marx referred to as the ‘universal metabolism of nature’. In the process, the materialist conception of history was alienated from the materialist conception of nature. Today, faced with the planetary ecological emergency of the Anthropocene epoch, it is essential to heal this breach within the philosophy of praxis by returning to the second foundation of Marxism associated with Friedrich Engels’s Dialectics of Nature, seeing this as an indispensable key to the ecological and social revolution of the 21st century.

Applying Dialectics of Nature to Analyze Agricultural Sustainable Development

Applying Dialectics of Nature to Analyze Agricultural Sustainable Development

Китайские исследования в области российской (советской) философии науки и техники

Since the early 1950s, the first generation of Chinese scientists who studied En­gels’ Dialectics of Nature have been dealing with philosophical problems of natu­ral science in the wake of developments in Soviet philosophy. This was dictated by the need to serve the needs of national policy and the tasks of developing a philo­sophical theoretical system in the PRC. The fruits of such cooperation significantly influenced the theoretical construction and development of the “dialectic of nature in China”. Over the past 70 years, Chinese scientists have continuously observed the development of the Soviet philosophy of natural science and its subsequent theoretical offshoots, using methods of comparative analysis in relation to the his­torical context of their existence. The philosophy of science and technology origi­nated in the Soviet Union and is developing in the Russian Federation on the basis of Russian scientific culture, which contains the “gene” of materialistic dialec­tics (as, indeed, the “mutations” that arose as a result of countering this gene). As a branch of knowledge, the philosophy of science and technology has under­gone an evolution from Russian natural philosophy to the Soviet philosophy of natural science, has passed the path of formation of the Soviet (and later – Russian) philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, as well as such a promising re­search direction as “science, technology and society”. The philosophy of science and technology in Russia deserves that the international scientific community should study it, research and adopt its experience, and also, if possible, make its feasible contribution to “science and technology studies in Russia (USSR)” and to the study of the direction “science, technology and society” in Russia.

The Representation of Dialectics of Nature in Western Art and Its Enlightenment to the Development of Chinese Modern Art Industry

The Representation of Dialectics of Nature in Western Art and Its Enlightenment to the Development of Chinese Modern Art Industry

The Representation of Dialectics of Nature in Western Art and Its Enlightenment to the Development of Chinese Modern Art Industry

The Representation of Dialectics of Nature in Western Art and Its Enlightenment to the Development of Chinese Modern Art Industry

The Construction of Rural Ecological Civilization under the Guidance of Natural Dialectics

The Construction of Rural Ecological Civilization under the Guidance of Natural Dialectics

The Return of the Dialectics of Nature

John Bellamy Foster takes readers back to Marx's understanding of the dialectics of nature and society. As Marx and Engels noted, humanity must not only struggle for the advancement of human freedom, but also the capitalist destruction of the earth. Today, the struggle for freedom and the struggle for necessity coincide everywhere on the planet for the first time in human history, creating a prospect of ruin or revolution.

Study on the Optimization of Agricultural Economic Management in Wuyi County based on Natural Dialectics

Study on the Optimization of Agricultural Economic Management in Wuyi County based on Natural Dialectics

Engels' philosophy of openness and nonlinear system in dialectics of Nature

Engels' natural dialectics thought is the model of combining philosophy with natural science and is an important part of the Marxist ideological system. There is a close connection between the dialectics of nature and contemporary systems science. The former provides ideological support, philosophical basis, and theoretical origin for the latter, and points out the direction for the development of contemporary systems science. The law of the dynamic development of material forms revealed by dialectics of nature reveals the complex objective things and the objective world, as well as the nonlinearity, complexity, and diversity of matter. The analysis and study of system complexity, openness, and nonlinearity, has important theoretical significance for the enrichment and development of materialist dialectics and provides a new perspective of research analysis and demonstration for materialist dialectics

Socialism, Communism, and Concrete Marxism

ABSTRACT This dialogue begins with the question of “concrete Marxism,” which is at the foundations of “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.” The concrete is analysed in terms of Marx’s dialectic between freedom and necessity, as also in Marx’s early work on Epicurean materialism and in Engels’s “Dialectics of Nature” and “Anti-Dühring.” We include a discussion of Hegel’s dialectic between the actual and the rational. Subsequently, we move to the relationship of socialist construction to the (non-socialist) past and a socialist future. We adduce examples from Marx’s “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” as well as the Chinese concept of mingyun (destiny/future) and explore the implications of Lenin’s critique of “left wing” impatience with the past. The issue here is the mistake of a “leftist” effort to make the leap—through sheer voluntary effort—into communism as an over-compensation for practical deficiencies and, on the other hand, the possibility for revolutionary socialism of appropriating and transforming the positive advances of bourgeois culture and civilisation. We conclude with some preliminary observations on the communist prospect, emphasising the concrete form of the dialectic of productive forces and relations of production and the reasons why this form highlights the importance of the former as a motive force.

Viewing the Sustainable Development of Agriculture with the Dialectics of Nature

Viewing the Sustainable Development of Agriculture with the Dialectics of Nature