SOAN 2112 Chapter 14: CHAPTER 14.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2112
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

For hegel it will be recalled that reason embraced the total universe. Nature as well as society were governed by the idea and its dialectical logic. Hegel, reason and truth were both imminent forces. Not merely a function of normal propositions; the criterion of the truth was reality in process it is true if it fulfills all its objective possibilities the dialectical conception of reality profoundly influences marx"s thinking about social phenomena. The realm of the is: must always be challenged to reveal the possibilities within it. Marx, like hegel- refused to limit truth to a particular given ; he firmly believed that the potentialities of men and things are no exhausted in the given forms and relations in which they may actually appear . Marx was always conscious of the transient character of any given facts, which are but negative moments in a ceaseless historical process.