the positivist and idealistic tendency to reject religion altogether as one of the biggest problems of communist movements in religious countries.
In fact a dialectical materialist should be not positivist and should be an anti-idealist.
That all said, ontologically I’m an atheist.
I am a philosophy layman (see my comment history); if you do get the time could you please explain what that sentence means (I thought I was getting to grips with ontology but reading material for this sort of stuff is not easily accessible)?
if you do get the time could you please explain what that sentence means
Ontology is the study of being or existence, so that sentence is just a short way to say that, with regards to the "truthyness"of the beliefs of any religion, I don’t believe them, nor do I believe in the existence of the supernatural. But believing would not significantly change my analysis.
In fact a dialectical materialist should be not positivist and should be an anti-idealist.
I am a philosophy layman (see my comment history); if you do get the time could you please explain what that sentence means (I thought I was getting to grips with ontology but reading material for this sort of stuff is not easily accessible)?
Ontology is the study of being or existence, so that sentence is just a short way to say that, with regards to the "truthyness"of the beliefs of any religion, I don’t believe them, nor do I believe in the existence of the supernatural. But believing would not significantly change my analysis.
Thanks for explaining!