Obviously, there is a closely-knit interface between denialism and resistance. In the same vein, O’Shea articulates that denialism is “essentially an irrational action that withholds the validation of a historical experience or even.” Moreover, denialism implies a situation where individuals refuse to accept an empirically verifiable reality. Further on, this resistance necessarily leads to denialism. Resistance, because when a thorough-going Marxist confronts realities that imply state of affairs that are beyond the material, there is the propensity to resist this admission. And what is the consequence of this? What is the output of an exaggeration of one aspect of reality over the other? In a nutshell, the result of this neglect of one aspect of reality for the exaggeration of the other is resistance.
This exactly parades that tendency to depreciate what is not comprehensible to a knowing subject. However, it is not to be denied, the exaggeration of one aspect of reality over the other in the schema provided by each of these intellectuals. The principle of dialectics albeit differently applied to phenomena, is very central to the philosophy of each of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Hegel and Karl Marx.
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PDF Keywords: Hegel, Marx, Whitehead, Resistance, Metaphysics. It is precisely through this principle of binary as it presents itself in process metaphysics that resistance through the exaggeration of one aspect of reality over the other(s), is overcome. Here, it is revealed that rather than boasting of a dialectic approach to phenomena, a binary complementary alternative is more appropriate. In an attempt to bring a resolution to the metaphysical resistance to the admission of other realities, this study forays into the process metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead. This is where the notion of resistance and the attendant denialism replete in their systems is unveiled.
It is the case that in the system of each of these thinkers, the urge to depreciate other aspects of reality that do not fit into their schema is rife. Similarly, for Marx, whatever cannot be interpreted in materialistic terms is illusory.
Marx’s dialectical materialism on the other hand, takes the material phenomena as the basis of existence. Hence, for Hegel, material existence is nothing but the physical manifestation of the Absolute Spirit. PMB 2002 Ago-Iwoye, : Hegel’s dialectical idealism takes the mental phenomena as the genesis and basis of reality.
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