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[3]: 96–97 The text begins with Mao's emphasis on practice over theory, and states, "Marxists hold that man's social practice alone is the criterion of the truth of his knowledge of the external world." [3]: 96 In this view, a person must "discover the truth through practice, and again through practice verify and develop the truth."
On Contradiction, along with Mao's text On Practice, elevated Mao's reputation as a Marxist theoretician. [12]: 37 It became a foundational text of Mao Zedong Thought. [4]: 9 After Mao was celebrated in the Eastern Bloc following China's intervention in the Korean War, both texts became widely read in the USSR. [12]: 38
In On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, Mao discusses the contradictions still existing in socialist society. According to Mao: [3]: 168 In socialist society, the basic contradiction is still the contradiction between productive relations and productivity and between the superstructure and the economic foundation. However ...
The second volume begins with the philosophical work by Mao, On Contradiction and contains writings from the years 1937 to 1938 related to the war against Japan. Selections discussing military strategy against both the Japanese and the Kuomintang are the subject of the third volume of the selected works, which contains selections from writings ...
In classical logic, intuitionistic logic, and similar logical systems, the principle of explosion [a] [b] is the law according to which any statement can be proven from a contradiction. [1] [2] [3] That is, from a contradiction, any proposition (including its negation) can be inferred; this is known as deductive explosion. [4] [5]
The third layer of time still exists in the present, but it does so in a way that breaks free from the simple repetition of time. This level refers to an ultimate event so powerful that it becomes omnipresent. It is a great symbolic event, like the murder to be committed by Oedipus or Hamlet. Upon rising to this level, an actor effaces herself ...
The road up and the road down are the same thing. (Hippolytus, Refutations 9.10.3) This is an example of a compresent unity of opposites. For, at the same time, this slanted road has the opposite qualities of ascent and descent.
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785; German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten; also known as the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals, and the Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals) is the first of Immanuel Kant's mature works on moral philosophy and the first of his trilogy of major works on ethics alongside the Critique of ...