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MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA<br />
M.M.NINAN<br />
A better materialistic monism was proposed which is still valid is the Dialectical<br />
Materialism as proposed by Marx and Engels.<br />
Dialectical materialism, official philosophy of Communism, based on the writings of Karl<br />
Marx and Friedrich Engels, as elaborated by G. V. Plekhanov, V. I. Lenin, and Joseph<br />
Stalin. In theory dialectical materialism is meant to provide both a general world view<br />
and a specific method for the investigation of scientific problems. The basic tenets are<br />
that everything is material and that change takes place through "the struggle of<br />
opposites." Matter is always in motion. Movement is the form of the existence of matter,<br />
an inherent attribute of matter, a manifestation of the multiplicity of matter. Space and<br />
time are but the manifestation of this reality.<br />
Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin<br />
The great basic question of all philosophy, especially of modern philosophy, is that<br />
concerning the relation of thinking and being - spirit and nature...which is primary spirit<br />
or nature... The answer which the philosophers gave to this question split them into two<br />
great camps. Those who asserted the primacy of spirit to nature and, therefore, in the<br />
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