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MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA M.M.NINAN last instance, assumed world creation in some form or other...comprised the camp of idealism. The others who regarded nature as primary belong to the various schools of materialism.” Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach & the End of Classical German Philosophy, early 1886 MESW, 1977, pp. 603-04; MECW, Vol. 26, pp. 365-66 In dialectical materialism matter is all that is in the universe. Movement is the form of the existence of matter, an inherent attribute of matter, a manifestation of the multiplicity of matter. Everything flows, everything changes; there is nothing absolutely stagnant, nothing unchangeable in the processes of actuality. There are three fundamental laws of matter. Engels postulated three laws of dialectics from his reading of Hegel's Science of Logic. Engels elucidated these laws in his work Dialectics of Nature: 1. The law of the unity and conflict of opposites All progress takes place through the unity, conflict, interpenetration, and transformation of opposites. Every state carries within itself two forces. Engels calls them Thesis and Antithesis. At any instant the state is decided by the synthesis of these two forces. The synthesis then becomes the thesis with its embedded anti-thesis and the process goes on. This process never stops. This practically is saying that while everything is developed out of matter, there inherently is a duality within the properties of matter itself. This is sometimes referred to a Dialectical Monism. Dialectical monism, also known as dualistic monism, is an ontological position that holds that reality is ultimately a unified whole, distinguishing itself from monism by asserting that this whole necessarily expresses 72
MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA M.M.NINAN itself in dualistic terms. In the deepest sense matter and motion are the ultimate reality. If we call the fundamental monistic element as matter in motion it is monistic. 2. The law of the passage of quantitative changes into qualitative changes Qualitative changes at some point of phase transition produce a qualitative change with properties that are not explainable in terms of the old states alone. All progress takes place through the transformation of quantity into quality and vice versa. “…. qualitative changes can only occur by the quantitative addition or quantitative subtraction of matter or motion (so-called energy). (Dialectics of Nature, page 64, F. Engels.) Whereas quantitative change is a gradual and continuous process, a thing either has a particular Quality or it has not. Qualitative change, then, can only be conceived as a sudden leap, from one Quality to another. A simple atomic level illustration will be the quantitative addition of one hydrogen atom with two oxygen atom which produces the molecule of water. The properties of water cannot be predicted from the properties of its component atoms. The properties of water is qualitatively different from the quantity that we added. This law holds good all the way from basic states to the highest cosmic and socio-cultural states 73
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