RE: Psychic Reflection

From: Nate Schmolze (nate_schmolze@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Oct 08 2000 - 09:47:54 PDT


> Paul said,
>
> An important thread moves through this entire discussion, one that refers
> back in terms of the philosophical theory of reflection to Kant's
> "perceptive judgment" through Hegel's presentation of the three stage
> process of reflection to Marx's statement that the "human organs are
> theorists"

What does this mean here? What does it mean to say a "human organ is a
theorist"? And is there a difference between "human organ" and "organ" here?
Marx's use of "human organ" I take as how in the process of activity,
practice etc the organ becomes something different than a biological
phenomenon.

Leontev follows of course by,

"The fact of the matter is that the basis for cognitive processes is not the
individual practice of the subject, but “the totality of human practice.”
For this reason not only thought but also man’s perception, to a very large
degree, surpass in their riches the relative poverty of his personal
experience."

Nate



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