Marx appropriates Hegel's "master slave dialectic" in his understanding of alienation. How is his four-fold model of alienatation a critique of Hegel and a continuation of Hegel?
2006-09-05 09:00:15 · 5 answers · asked by daffydil4_7 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Do your own homework.
2006-09-05 09:05:40 · answer #1 · answered by Richard B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marx critiqued Hegel for suposedly missing the point on the dialectics. Hegel said that the Dialectic triad (thesis, antithesis and sinthesis) occured in a rectilineal and predestined history. To enter the current of history a nation had to struggle, fight against the rest of the othre nations aiding then to the development of history to a superior sinthesis each time, but hegel advocated this for his own country, who he said was the culmination of all history (very much like what many modern americans think of the USA today). Hegel believed that this was the way god worked on history and he called this the "Zietgeist" or time spirit.
Marx replaced the struggle of nations with struggle of classes, and turned hegel on his head, according to marx's own words, where he said that hegel had missed the point due to the conviction on hegel that the process was Spiritual, see? But marx was a materialist. OK. because of this last point, Marx believed that the only real thing was matter, independently of our knwoing it or perceiving it, matter was there independent of us, therefore all process of dialectic had to be material, not spiritual.
This lead also to the conclusion that men, by accepting an unexosting spiritual reality they were anielating themselves of their truw material nature, whence religion being the "opiate of the peoples", as well as alienation from the fruit of his own work and alienation from society and such.
So, in a few words, marx switched around Hegel's philosophy of history to his own conclusiona, which resulted in his famous materialist dialectic and all the political upheaval that it caused.
But, you know, if you read hegel better, you see that Hegel's assumptions and conclusions were wrong and fundamentally flawed. Karl Popper in his book "The open society and his enemis" expose this unsurpasedly clear, highly recomend it.
2006-09-05 09:15:23 · answer #2 · answered by Dominicanus 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that Marx was really critiquing Hegel so much as applying the dialectic to historical and political contexts.
2006-09-05 09:06:14 · answer #3 · answered by kreevich 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marxism didn't work in the former Soviet Union, it's not working in China, Cuba or anywhere else! It destroys the human spirit & the soul!
2006-09-05 09:08:08 · answer #4 · answered by Phil P 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sounds like you need to do some reading.
2006-09-05 09:32:26 · answer #5 · answered by icetender 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋