The Battle between Gods and Giants: Materialism and Idealism

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Chapter 1 The Battle between Gods and Giants: Materialism and Idealism

in Platoâs Battle between the Gods and the Giants and Its Continuing Relevance in the Speculative Philosophy of History

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The chapter starts with Platoâs dialogue in the Sophist when he presciently anticipates the conflict between Gods and Giants, the materialists and idealists in Western thought.

Stranger: What we shall see is something like a Battle of Gods and Giants going on between them over their quarrel about reality.â Theaetetus: âHow so?â Str: One party is trying to drag everything down to earth out of heaven and the unseen, literally grasping rocks and trees in their hands for they lay hold upon every stock and stone and strenuously affirm that real existence belongs only to that which can be handled and offers resistance to the touch. They define reality as the same thing as body, and as soon as one of the opposing parties asserts that anything without a body is real, they are utterly contemptuous and will not listen to another word.â Theaet: âThe people you describe are certainly a formidable crew. I have met a number of them before now.â Str. âYes, and accordingly their adversaries are very wary in defending their position somewhere in the heights of the unseen, maintaining with all their force that true reality consists in certain intelligible and bodiless forms which their opponents wield, and what those allege to be true reality they call not real being, but a moving process of becoming. On this issue an interminable battle is always going on between the two camps (264A-264E).

As the conflict historically unfolds and continues between the materialists, mechanists, determinists, empiricists, phenomenalists, neuroscientists and now our current Artificial Intelligence proponents and all of them marshalled against the advocates for the consciousness of freedom, spontaneity, rationalism, subjective and objective idealism, phenomenology and existentialism, it pits Plato against Democritus, Plotinus against Epicurus, Augustine and Aquinas against Skeptics and Atheists, Ficino against Valla, Boehm against Bacon, Descartes against Hobbes, Leibniz against Locke, Kant against Hume, Hegel against Marx, and Copleston against Russell.

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Platoâs Battle between the Gods and the Giants and Its Continuing Relevance in the Speculative Philosophy of History

Reihe:Â Value Inquiry Book Series, Band: 399Â undÂ Cognitive Science, Band: 399

ISBN:: 9789004713352

Verleger:: Brill

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 07 Dec 2024

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