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Metafizyka w marksizmie? – Materializm dialektyczny i jego konsekwencje w ujęciu o. Józefa Marii Bocheńskiego

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Pawlikowski T.
Rocznik Tomistyczny
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2020
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vol. 1
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issue 9
301-316
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Father Józef Maria Bocheński OP (1902– 1995) was considered a leading sovietologist. At the University of Fribourg, he founded in 1957 the Institute of Eastern Europe, in which the doctrine of Marxism-Leninism was studied scientifically. The results were published in the journal „Studies in Soviet Thought”. He initiated the uprising in Cologne Ost-Kolleg, where knowledge about Soviet philosophy and communism was disseminated. In the years 1961–1962 he was also its director. In his publications he undertook, among others the question of the metaphysics of Marxism, seeing it generally in dialectical materialism and, in specific applications, also in historical materialism. Criticizing this trend of thought, he focused on its latest findings, developed in the Soviet philosophy in the fifties of the twentieth century. Approaching the criticism from an external point of view, he pointed out some significant inconsistencies of Marxist materialism. According to the first law of dialectics, it proclaims a universal cause-effect determinism, and at the same time allows for the occurrence of random events. Explaining the existence of consciousness in matter with the adopted concept of cognition, Marxism mixes the epistemological and ontological order. Moreover, this trend uses the unscientific understanding of matter. On the basis of the considerations of Father Bocheński, it can also be concluded that the fundamental inconsistency of Marxist materialism is the acceptance of the existence of a spiritual element (consciousness) different in quality from mat-ter, while maintaining the thesis that there is only matter and what comes from it.
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