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Ideology and ‘a New Machine of War’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Antony Flew
Antony Flew
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University of Reading
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Philosophy , Volume 51 , Issue 198 , October 1976 , pp. 447 - 453
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1976

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References

1 Marx, K. and Engels, F., The German Ideology, Ryazanskaya, S. (ed.) (Moscow: Progress, 1964), 23 and 23–24Google Scholar. This work was, of course, written in 1845 and 1846 and first published only many years later, in 1932.

2 Ibid., 37.

3 Ibid., 37.

4 Marx and Engels, loc. cit., 64.

5 Ibid., 51.

6 Ibid., 37.

7 I remember George Paul urging in an Oxford class that ‘ultimately’ is the key word in metaphysics.

8 Ideology in Social Science, Blackburn, R. (ed.) (London: Collins Fontana, 1972), 9Google Scholar. Compare, for instance: Student Power, Cockburn, A. and Blackburn, R. (eds) (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books and New Left Review, 1969)Google Scholar; and Counter Course, Pateman, T. (ed.) (Harmondsworth: Penguin Education, 1972)Google Scholar.

9 Blackburn, loc. cit., 107–108.

10 Ibid., 9–10.

11 Ibid., 212.

12 Blackburn, loc. cit., 10.

13 Ibid., 112. I discuss Carr's treatment of inevitability as a supposed presupposition of critical history—perhaps a more prominent feature of this important book (London: Macmillan, 1961)—in the last section of ‘Hume and Historical nevitability’ to appear shortly in Teorema (Valencia).

14 Hollis, M. and Nell, E., Rational Economic Man (London: Cambridge University Press, 1975), 96CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

15 Hollis and Nell, loc. cit, 108.

16 Popkin, R. H., The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes (Assen: van Gorcum, 1960), 68 and 69Google Scholar.

17 Ibid., 79: italics original.

18 See ‘Is Pascal's Wager the only safe bet?’, reprinted in my The Presumption of Atheism (London: Pemberton/Elek, 1976)Google Scholar.

19 Jacka, K., Cox, C., and Marks, J., Rape of Reason (London: Churchill, 1975), 41Google Scholar.

20 Ibid., 43. A main source for such misrepresentation of the presuppositions and implications of the sociology of knowledge is an Open University Set Book, Knowledge and Control, Young, M. F. D. (ed.) (London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971)Google Scholar. For a critique see ‘Metaphysical Idealism and the Sociology of Knowledge in my Sociology, Equality and Education (London: Macmillan, 1976)Google Scholar.

21 Jacka, etc., loc. cit., 41 and 42.

22 Ibid., 42.