Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s9.t12.4

v1.c7.s9.t12.4

Chattopadhyayahasalsomadegreatachievements in the study of comparative philosophy. He believed that the idea of dialectics in Western philosophy was first proposed by the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus. This dialectics was built on the basis of materialism; later, Hegel's idealist dialectics replaced the original materialism dialectics. Following that, Marx and Engels set the dialectics free from the illusion of Hegel's idealism, restored its materialistic face and enabled it to rise to a new level. He pointed out that the intellectual movement starting from the beginning of the 19th century CE was "the history of development from metaphysics to the dialectics, and from idealism to materialism". Since then, dialectics had become the most powerful ideological weapon of human, not only for illustrating the history, but also for creating history.