In the first of a series of talks, Alan Woods adresses the Greenwich
branch of the Socialist Appeal on the need for Philosophy, especially
for those who are interested in the perspective of revolution. This
talk begins with the materialist pre-Socratics of Greece, where real
philosophy began, and the father of dialectics - Heraclitus. The
relevance to politics of having a philosophy is to explain the apparent
static reality of things, which is in fact a surface appearance that
conceals maturing contradictions. Part 1.1 and Part 1.2.
In the first of a series of talks, Alan Woods adresses the Greenwich
branch of the Socialist Appeal on the need for Philosophy, especially
for those who are interested in the perspective of revolution. This
talk begins with the materialist pre-Socratics of Greece, where real
philosophy began, and the father of dialectics - Heraclitus. The
relevance to politics of having a philosophy is to explain the apparent
static reality of things, which is in fact a surface appearance that
conceals maturing contradictions. Part 1.1 and Part 1.2.