From reading the book you gave me, I feel much more aligned with materialism. I believe that matter is the realest and the spirit world is less real - if I may put it like that.
That doesn’t mean that I think we should view everything from a materialist lense.
The materialist lense is synonymous with the scientific method. But science isn’t suitable for everything. Science is slow, rigid, unaccessible and never answers wholistically. Oftentimes science isn’t the right approach.
For deem, if he wants to befriend her, he could look up research papers on the best approach to do so, but if she responds with something he hasn’t studied, then he will have to go back to the drawing board. In this case it would be better for him to lean on meta physics such as “trusting his gut feeling” or “make her feel valued”. This approach moves away from materialism, but that doesn’t mean that he has turned into a luney coocoo head.
I think you’re looking at it in quite a rigid manner. The dialectical materialist theory of knowledge is that when we practice, we better inform our theory, better allowing us to guess. In unknowns, we can only draw on what we know, and the results of what happens help us get a deeper and deeper understanding of what we are learning. It isn’t that we can never interact with what we don’t already know, it’s that we have to in order to learn more!
From reading the book you gave me, I feel much more aligned with materialism. I believe that matter is the realest and the spirit world is less real - if I may put it like that.
That doesn’t mean that I think we should view everything from a materialist lense.
The materialist lense is synonymous with the scientific method. But science isn’t suitable for everything. Science is slow, rigid, unaccessible and never answers wholistically. Oftentimes science isn’t the right approach.
For deem, if he wants to befriend her, he could look up research papers on the best approach to do so, but if she responds with something he hasn’t studied, then he will have to go back to the drawing board. In this case it would be better for him to lean on meta physics such as “trusting his gut feeling” or “make her feel valued”. This approach moves away from materialism, but that doesn’t mean that he has turned into a luney coocoo head.
Or what you say?
I think you’re looking at it in quite a rigid manner. The dialectical materialist theory of knowledge is that when we practice, we better inform our theory, better allowing us to guess. In unknowns, we can only draw on what we know, and the results of what happens help us get a deeper and deeper understanding of what we are learning. It isn’t that we can never interact with what we don’t already know, it’s that we have to in order to learn more!