Library:Elementary principles of philosophy/Control questions

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The philosophical problems

I. Introduction

1. How important is the study of philosophy for the militant worker?

2. What more particular importance does the study of dialectical materialism have for them?

II. The fundamental problem of philosophy

1. What is the fundamental problem of philosophy?

2. Explain and correct the common confusion to which the words idealism and materialism give rise.

III. Idealism

What are the main idealistic arguments?

IV. Materialism

What are the points of opposition between idealism and materialism?

V. Which is right, idealism or materialism?

What should we say to those who claim that the world only exists in our minds?

VI. Is there a third philosophy? Agnosticism

Between materialism and idealism, is there room for a third philosophy?

The philosophical materialism

Study of metaphysics

Study of dialectics

The historical materialism

Dialectical materialism and ideologies