Karl Marx
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- Created on: 22-05-16 19:09
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- Karl Marx
- Historical Materialism
- Marx was a historicist
- Philosophy cannot be done in abstraction from historical events
- Weakness of enlightenment for Marx = lacked explanation for social change
- Thought humans and society were an organism that changes and develops
- Society and individuals cannot be understood other than historically
- Marx was a historicist
- Hegel
- Preceded and influenced Marx
- Hegel thought the historical process was dialectial
- The Dialectic
- All things are contradictory in themselves
- Contradiction is basis of movement life and change
- 3 stages
- 1. Simple unity - object as understood prior to change
- 2. Negation - object as understood to give rise to its contradictory
- 3.Negation of negation - opposition between 1 and 2 understood to be reconciled within a greater unity
- Everything exists in the infinite mind of god (absolute spirit)
- Alienation - humanity believes itself separate and isolated from both nature and God
- Alienation overcome through development of human consciousness, recognizing ..
- both nature + itself=part of overarching unity of absolute spirit
- Marx and History
- Hugely critical of the idea that everything is mental and absolute spirit
- Dialectic is just a tool to understand historical change
- History for Marx is history of class struggle
- Series of material and social contradictions
- Everything shaped by what you need to survive and necessities of life
- Our ideas, philosophies etc rest on nature of the production of our means of physical survival
- For Marx, humans are essentially producers
- Means of production plus labour power = forces of production
- Material progress in terms of power over nature
- Historical Materialism
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