Prepared by the Leningrad Institute of Philosophy under the Direction of
M. Shirokov 1941
Dialectical materialism takes up a somewhat hostile attitude to metaphysics. Why is this ? It is because " the persistent problems of philosophy " are not, as is usually supposed, merely problems for thought, but problems in separably connected with stages in social development which carry with them contradictions insoluble at these particular levels.
For instance the failure of a pre-scientific world to under stand nature creates special intellectual problems for the philosophy of that period which only clear up when science advances.
Or again, before the discovery of emergent evolution philosophy will be troubled with dualism and vitalism, and there will be no help for it.
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