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minus-squareAwoo [she/her]hexbear20·edit-21 year agoI prefer to think of it this way: Idealism: The belief that ideas shape the world around us, that humans have ideas and then those ideas change material conditions. Materialism: The belief instead that material conditions shape human ideas. That the conditions humans find themselves in create the ideas they have. Or, what comes first? The idea of a chicken? Or the egg? link
minus-squareChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]hexbear10·edit-21 year agoWe love the German ideology folks! You basically channel marx perfectly It has not occurred to any one of these philosophers to inquire into the connection of German philosophy with German reality, the relation of their criticism to their own material surroundings. link
I prefer to think of it this way:
Idealism: The belief that ideas shape the world around us, that humans have ideas and then those ideas change material conditions.
Materialism: The belief instead that material conditions shape human ideas. That the conditions humans find themselves in create the ideas they have.
Or, what comes first? The idea of a chicken? Or the egg?
We love the German ideology folks!
You basically channel marx perfectly