On formal logic and domination: philosophy and science in Marcuse

Authors

  • Luiz Fernando Botto Garcia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5920.primeirosestudos.2009.136837

Keywords:

Dialectics - Formal logic - Domination

Abstract

This article intends to analyse the relation between formal logic and domination made by Herbert Marcuse in Ideology of Industrial Society. In Greek classical philosophy, the author points out to the transcendental and subversive tendency of Platonic dialectics, in opposition to Aristotelian formal logic, which, by means of formal judgments of reality seeks to anticipate the criteria for truth and falsehood. Such anticipation acquires the status of control, since it rejects any possibility of transcending the positive moment- which, in a political analysis of the advanced industrial society, gives domination a logical legitimacy. Science is not immune to that process, also being a guarantee of political maintenance of an unfree world

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Published

2009-12-05

Issue

Vol. 7 (2009)

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How to Cite

Garcia, L. F. B. (2009). On formal logic and domination: philosophy and science in Marcuse. Primeiros Escritos, 7(1), 169-179. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5920.primeirosestudos.2009.136837