ecture Three Georg Lukacs and the Dialectic of Totality (Western Marxism, Spring, 2012) One german Idealism and hegel's dialectic l, About the modern rationalist philosophy A, modern philosophy as the rationalist philosophy the situation is quite different when rationalism claims to be the universal method by which to obtain knowledge of the whole existence. In that event, the necessary correlation with the principle of irrationality becomes crucial: it erodes and dissolves the whole system. This is the case with modern bourgeois rationalism"(p114) B, the three moments of the modern rationalist philosophy Early modern rational ist philosophy: dogmatism Critical philosophy: the problem of methodology( to meet the challenge of irrationality) The philosophy of positivism: giving up any efforts to solve this problem of irrationality 2. the social condition for German Idealism A, the reality: the man-made" second nature The self-sufficient and self-closed system of capital and commodities(humans being destroyed) The irrationality of capitalism B: The problem for the bourgeois thought( Critical philosophy) How could humans be resurrected as the free subjects again? How could we really solve the problem of the irrational content, which is lying at the root of our life in the bourgeois society?) 3. the development from kant to Hegel A, the problem of content and totality("thing-in-itself) The relationship between form and content Quotation: about praxis as the way to solve the problem of totality p123 B, Hegels dialectic: the dialectic of matter and the dialectic of totality Quotation: about his dialectic of matter(logic of concrete concepts)p142 Quotation: the true were understood not only as substance, but also as subject" p142 C. dialectic as the true historical method 14 Quotation: about history as the substance p143 About the coincidence of history and genesis About the dialectic of totality pl45 4, The Antinomies of the Bourgeois Thought the antinomies lying at the root of the bourgeois society: humanity being destroyed in society the antinomies of the bourgeois thought: within the bourgeois society, to solve this problem only in philosophy1 Lecture Three Georg Lukacs and the Dialectic of Totality (Western Marxism, Spring, 2012 ) One, German Idealism and Hegel’s Dialectic 1, About the modern rationalist philosophy A, modern philosophy as the rationalist philosophy “the situation is quite different when rationalism claims to be the universal method by which to obtain knowledge of the whole existence. In that event, the necessary correlation with the principle of irrationality becomes crucial: it erodes and dissolves the whole system. This is the case with modern bourgeois rationalism” (p114) B, the three moments of the modern rationalist philosophy Early modern rationalist philosophy: dogmatism; Critical philosophy: the problem of methodology (to meet the challenge of irrationality) The philosophy of positivism: giving up any efforts to solve this problem of irrationality 2, the social condition for German Idealism A, the reality: the man-made “second nature” The self-sufficient and self-closed system of capital and commodities (humans being destroyed) The irrationality of capitalism B: The problem for the bourgeois thought (Critical philosophy): How could humans be resurrected as the free subjects again? (How could we really solve the problem of the irrational content, which is lying at the root of our life in the bourgeois society?) 3, the development from Kant to Hegel A, the problem of content and totality (“thing-in-itself”) The relationship between form and content Quotation: about “thing-in-itself” p115 Quotation: about praxis as the way to solve the problem of totality p123 B, Hegel’s dialectic: the dialectic of matter and the dialectic of totality Quotation: about his dialectic of matter (logic of concrete concepts)p142 Quotation: “the true were understood not only as substance, but also as subject” p142 C, dialectic as the true historical method 143 Quotation: about history as the substance p143 About the coincidence of history and genesis p143 About the dialectic of totality p145 4, The Antinomies of the Bourgeois Thought the antinomies lying at the root of the bourgeois society: humanity being destroyed in society the antinomies of the bourgeois thought: within the bourgeois society, to solve this problem only in philosophy