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by Hossein Dallalbashi (Author)
The Vantage Press, which published this book in 1979, wrote this review on the book " Most people think of science and philosophy as two separate and unrelated subjects. The author of this book, Hossein Dallalbashi, shows how this need not be so, and offers a through analysis of the relation between natural sciences and scientific materialistic philosophy. He begins by showing how Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels took the mechanical materialist philosophy of their time, and applied the idea of evolution to it, thereby developing dialectical materialist logic. The author points out how in order to be relevant, philosophy must constantly assimilate the discoveries of natural sciences. Lenin said such changes did not constitute" revisionism", a deviation from dialectical materialist logic, but in fact were essential in Marxism. The author believes the gap between science and philosophy is caused by scientists who are ignorant of scientific materialistic philosophy, and philosophers who think they can continue philosophizing, making sense and relating to people, without having to acquire a comprehensive understanding of natural sciences, and un-interruptedly incorporate the new scientific discoveries into philosophy. Mr. Dallalbashi points out how the separation has been harmful to both. Einstein claimed that his best students in atomic physics were those with having strong interest in scientific philosophy. The author discusses the atomic structure as the building blocks of the Universe, and how motion is inherent in all atoms . He then promotes the notion of self-motioned atomic dialectical materialist logic. Throughout the book, appropriate quotations are utilized from different famous philosophers and natural scientists, supporting the author's thesis. This book is scholarly, and yet written in a vivid style. with much original thinking by the author."
