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Lifshits and Ilyenkov on the nature of the ideal

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This article compares the concepts of the ideal proposed by two prominent Soviet Marxists: the contemplative concept (Lifshits) and that based on the activity approach (Ilyenkov). The former derives the ideal, along with man himself, from nature and the latter derives the ideal from the dialectics of labour which generates man, his feelings and thoughts and the higher forms of cultural being.

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  1. Hegel (1971, 106): “Platon erschien die Realität des Geistes—des Geistes, insofern er der Natur entgegengesetzt ist—in ihrer höchsten Wahrheit, nämlich als die Organisation eines Staats”.

  2. Hegel (1987, 190): “Ehre der List gegen die Macht, die blinde Macht an einer Seite anfassen, daß sie sich gegen sich selbst richtet—sie begreifen, sie als Bestimmtheit fassen, gegen diese tätig sein—oder sie als Bewegung eben in sich selbst zurückgehen machen, sich aufzuheben […]”.

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Mareev, S. Lifshits and Ilyenkov on the nature of the ideal. Stud East Eur Thought 68, 319–329 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-016-9264-7

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