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Should Soviet philosophy take a considered stand on the questions of transcendence and religion, this would entail a fundamental transformation in the Eest-West philosophical oppostion. But all human experience tends to show that a considered stand is the first step toward a genuine knowledge of the true nature of the world. Such a development would, obviously, be the end of Diamat as we know it and, eventually, the end of the ideological East-West conflict.
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This paper was composed in May of 1959. In March of 1960 the author had a chance to visit the SU and to discuss some of the limit-problems with Soviet philosophers. Any new perspectives which he gained from these discussions or further reflections on his part, have not been included in this text.
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Buchholz, A. Problems of the ideological east-west conflict. Studies in Soviet Thought 1, 120–131 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02413004
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