Mind and Motion and Monism by George John Romanes Mind and Motion and Monism George John Romanes’s Mind and Motion and Monism (1885, published posthumously in 1895) is a philosophical treatise that examines the relationship matter. Main argument…
ABC of Dialectical and Historical Materialism The book ABC of Dialectical and Historical Materialism (1978) by B.M. Boguslavsky and colleagues is a Soviet-era introduction to Marxist-Leninist philosophy, covering both dialectical materialism (laws o…
Man a Machine and Its Impact on Enlightenment Thought Man a Machine Julien Offray de La Mettrie’s Man a Machine (L’Homme Machine) was one of the most daring works of the Enlightenment. Published in 1747, it argued that human beings are nothing more …
Riddles of the Sphinx: a study in the philosophy of evolution It is the privilege of a preface that enables the author to deprecate some misconception of the scope and tendencies of his work by a preliminary explanation. And this privilege is doubl…
In Defence of Materialism Excerpt: The particular form into which Plekhanov’s book, On the Question of the Development of the Monist Theory of History, was cast, and the very great part it played in the history of Russian philosophical thought and p…
The Development of the Monist View of History Georgi Plekhanov Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856-1918) belonged to the first generation of Russian Marxists, to those people who laid the foundation for the dissemination of the revolutionary teachi…
The History of Materialism Authorised Translation from German by Ernest C. Thomas. This is a work that has long and impatiently been expected by a large circle of readers. It has been well praised by two eminent scientists, and their words have crea…
Modern science and materialism In all ages since the dawn of civilization, inquiring minds have been enthralled by certain fundamental questions, which are felt to be of greater magnitude and importance than any of those matters of detail which con…
