Steve Dufourny Dear Steve!
The concept of “Spinoza's God” is neither my starting position, nor my launching pad, nor my worldview.
For me, this is a false concept.
I've already said that my worldview is a dialectical-materialist one. It is entirely anti-religious, atheistic, and scientific. And this worldview is the product of the only true and scientific philosophy of dialectical materialism (PDM).
The founders of this philosophy are K. Marx and F. Engels.
V. I. Lenin made a significant contribution to the further development of this philosophy.
Soviet and Marxist philosophers also made their great, worthy, and invaluable contribution to the further development of this philosophy.
I believe that the new philosophical ideas inherent in my “Theory of Nature” (TN) represent a significant and essential contribution to the further creative development of the theory and practice of the philosophy of dialectical materialism (PDM).
Within the framework of TN, the fundamental question of physics and all natural science is clearly and openly posed and answered (the only correct and valid answer!)—the question of the concrete representation of matter in nature (the matter of nature). The answer is surprisingly simple: “the content of elementary particles is the ‘pure’ concrete matter of nature”. In essence, this answer is a statement of a natural fact. This fact is plainly visible to all physicists. This fact lies before the eyes and noses of all physicists.
But this fact is not recognized by the modern physics community, nor by the entire party of modern physicists (PMP). But this fact remains a fact, even if it is not recognized by the physics community.
This fact (its non-recognition by physicists) testifies (indicates) to many things.
1). This fact testifies to the anti-materialistic (=idealistic) nature of the worldview of the entire physical community, or the overwhelming majority of its members.
2). This fact indicates that the philosophical basis of the theory of modern physics (TMP) is a false and anti-scientific bourgeois-idealistic philosophy.
3). This fact indicates that the fundamentals of physics do not adequately represent or reflect the matter of nature. There is no physical quantity called “matter” in the fundamentals of physics.
4). This fact indicates that the theory of modern physics (TMP) is fundamentally anti-materialistic, and therefore erroneous and unscientific.
5) This fact indicates that the fundamental global systemic crisis in physics is directly related to the non-recognition of the specific representation of matter in nature by the Party of Modern Physicists (PMP).
6). This fact testifies to the extremely severe degree of degradation of the modern physical school and all physical science.
The failure to recognize this fact (on the part of the modern physics community and on the part of the Party of Modern Physicists (PMP)) lies at the basis of the modern long-term, fundamental, global, systemic crisis in physics and in general natural science.
This crisis is primarily a worldview (an ideological) one. The reason for the physics community's failure to recognize this fact is the bourgeois-idealistic worldview (BIW) of the entire physics community.
As is the philosophy, so is the worldview.
As is the worldview, so is the physics.
So, as is philosophy, so is physics.
Almost 150 years ago, F. Engels wrote:
“Natural scientists believe that they free themselves from philosophy by ignoring it or abusing it. They cannot, however, make any headway without thought, and for thought they need thought determinations. But they take these categories unreflectingly from the common consciousness of so-called educated persons, which is dominated by the relics of long obsolete philosophies, or from the little bit of philosophy compulsorily listened to at the University (which is not only fragmentary, but also a slow of views of people belonging to the most varied and usually the worst schools), or from uncritical and unsystematic reading of philosophical writings of all kinds. Hence they are no less in bondage to philosophy, but unfortunately in most cases to the worst philosophy, and those who abuse philosophy most are slaves to precisely the worst vulgarised relics of the worst philosophies.
Natural scientists may adopt whatever attitude they please, they are still under the domination of philosophy. It is only a question whether they want to be dominated by a bad, fashionable philosophy or by a form of theoretical thought which rests on acquaintance with the history of thought and its achievements.
“Physics, beware of metaphysics!” <239> is quite right, but in a different sense.
Natural scientists allow philosophy to prolong an illusory existence by making shift with the dregs of the old metaphysics.
Only when natural and historical science has become imbued with dialectics will all the philosophical rubbish—other than the pure theory of thought—be superfluous, disappearing in positive science.”
[Marx & Engels Collected Works Volume 25 pp. 490-491]
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It is worth referring to the work of F. Engels
“Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German
Philosophers”.
[Marx & Engels Collected Works Volume 2 6 p. 353 - 398 ]
[https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/cw/volume26/index.htm]
In this work, for the first time in the history of philosophy, the fundamental question of philosophy (FQP) is identified, posed and investigated.
This is a question about the relationship between being and consciousness, the material and the ideal. This is a question about the knowability of the world.
“What is primary in nature, the material (matter) or the ideal (idea)?”, “Is nature knowable?” - these are two sides of the FQP.
One or another decision of the first side of the FQP divides all philosophy into two large sections: materialism and idealism.
Today, the line of materialism is continued by the philosophy of dialectical materialism (PDM).
The idealist lineage is continued today by numerous philosophical teachings, movements, and theories, which can be grouped under the single name of bourgeois-idealist philosophy (BIP). These are entirely and completely anti-materialist philosophical theories, schools, movements, and tendencies.
According to one or another decision of this FQP, the division of philosophy into true (corresponding to nature) and false (not corresponding to nature) philosophy takes place.
True philosophy is FDM.
The FDM asserts the primacy of the material (matter) over the ideal (idea). TN (“Theory of Nature”) contributes to confirming the truth of this primacy. This confirmation is provided by providing evidence of the existence of ‘pure’ concrete matter in nature, which is the content of elementary particles (EPs).
False philosophy is BIP.
The main lie of the BIP is the statement of the primacy of the ideal (idea) over the material (matter) without presenting real evidence of the real generation of matter (quantum of matter!) by the idea, by the ideal, by consciousness.
According to one or another decision of this FQP, there is a division of philosophy into scientific (corresponding to nature and truth) and non-scientific, pseudoscientific, anti-scientific (not corresponding to nature and false) philosophy.
Scientific philosophy is FDM.
BIP is a non-scientific (pseudoscientific, anti-scientific) philosophy.
Within the framework of TN (“Theory of Nature”), a clarification is being made to the fundamental question of philosophy (FQP). This clarification involves the addition of a formulation regarding the third aspect of the fundamental question of philosophy (FQP). This formulation is: “What is the concrete representation of matter in nature?”
The correct and true, unambiguous and demonstrable answer is: “The content of elementary particles (EP) is the ‘pure’ concrete matter of nature”. And this answer is given within the framework of the only true and scientific philosophy of dialectical materialism (PDM).
The third side of the FQP is, in turn, also the fundamental question of physics and all natural science (FQPANS).
The “Theory of Nature” makes a significant contribution to the proof of the correctness and fidelity of the only true and scientific philosophy of dialectical materialism (PDM).
Within the framework of the TP (+FDM), the question of the causes and nature of the current fundamental global systemic crisis in physics and natural science has been resolved. This is, first and foremost, a worldview and ideological crisis.
Within the framework of the TMP (+BIP) this issue has not been resolved and cannot be resolved in principle.
Within the framework of TP (+FDM), the main question of physics and all natural sciences, the question of the specific representation of matter in nature, has been resolved.
Within the framework of the TMP (+BIP) this issue is not even mentioned, raised or posed.
Within the framework of TP (+FDM), paths are outlined for modern physics and all natural science to emerge from a protracted, centuries-long, fundamental systemic crisis. This is a transition to the platform of the only true and scientific philosophy of dialectical materialism (PDM). This is the formulation and solution (the only correct and true one) of the fundamental question of physics and all natural science (this is the third aspect of the fundamental question of philosophy).
Within the TMP (+BIP), this crisis continues. The TMP (+BIP) are still caught in the quagmire of this worldview crisis.
Within the framework of TP (+FDM), more than 40 fundamental problems of the foundations of physics and cosmogony (cosmology) have been solved; they are also fundamental problems of the foundations of nature and the universe.
Within the framework of the TMP (+BIP), these problems have not been resolved and cannot be resolved in principle within the framework of the false and anti-scientific bourgeois-idealistic worldview (BIW).
I think I'll stop here.
Sincerely
Robert Yusupov from Vladivostok, independent researcher, author of “Theory of Nature”, dialectical materialist, Marxist, communist
References
- Nature as an Objective Reality https://philpapers.org/rec/YUSNAA,
- Philosophy and Physics https://philpapers.org/rec/YUSPAP,
- Theory of Nature (in Russian) https://philpapers.org/rec/YUSTON,
- Announcement of the Scientific Revolution https://philpapers.org/rec/YUSAOT,
- The Third Side of the Main Question of Philosophy (MQP) https://philpapers.org/rec/YUSTTS,
- About the Quantum of Matter for Philosophers https://philpapers.org/rec/YUSPAT-2,
- My View on K. Popper's Criterion https://philpapers.org/rec/YUSOLA.
- Articles on TN on the website proza.ru [Electronic resource] URL: // http://proza.ru/avtor/yusrob,
- Articles on TN on the website vixra.org [Electronic resource] URL: // https://vixra.org/author/yusrob,
- Articles on TN on the website philpapers.org [Electronic resource] URL: // https://philpeople.org/profiles/robert-yusupov,
- The Universe as a Function of One Variable (in Russian) https://proza.ru/2023/12/25/1093,
- Once Again about Nature and its Material Principles
https://philpapers.org/rec/YUSOAA.