Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 53
EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY rejected the notion of eternal truth. They did not accept the objective truth to be absolute. It was always relative to a particular time and circumstance. . Abbasi. Among the socialist thinkers,. Engels accepted the idea of absolute truth, and thus met with Bogdanov's disapproval. By and large, to the. Communist philosophers, truth is the name of knowledge obtained by objective study, subject to a given time and state of affairs. Within these specifics, truth is knowledge, and knowledge is truth. As such, knowledge could be defined as a constantly changing objective truth, corresponding to ever-changing environments. . ENGELS. It did not take long before this materialist philosophy turned into an ordained way of life. Marx became the chief apostle of this Godless religion as well as its oracle. To him we must turn now for an in-depth study because it was the stupendous power of his idea and not the mere mechanism of dialectical materialism which was to change the face of the earth. some. In the spectrum of conflict of human ideas and beliefs, religion stands at one extreme, with its emphasis on the role of revelation as the most valid guiding principle. Marxism stands at the other end with its total denial of revealed truth. . Between these two occur various philosophies closer to one, some to the other. But negation of all that religion stands for is never found so total and absolute anywhere except in the Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism and scientific socialism. . Marx, among all the European philosophers, seems to be the most clear-headed, matter-of-fact, yet idealistic without confessing his idealism — extremely cunning in his 53