Title: The Source,Essence and Question of Concept of Matter
Abstract: The historical connotation of the concept of matter is extension and the material ontology is not the mainstream of western philosophy.Although Marxist philosophy which inherited Feuerbach's materialism reformed the concept of matter,an analysis on the definition of the concept of matter and the criticism to the philosophy of idealism made by Marxism indicates that the matter of Marxism is essentially the concept of object in the sense of epistemology and the object has still the feature of extension,so the matter can not be thought as substance.Moreover,if the matter is only understood as the objective reality which is non-extension,the materialistic conclusion about the world and the criticism to the idealism made by Marxist philosophy are questionable.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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