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What did Hegel say about alienation?
In Hegel’s philosophy, alienation is part of the process of self-creativity and self-discovery. According to Hegel, initially our consciousness is alienated from itself. It cannot understand its own true nature. In order to realize its own true nature consciousness’s needs to develop absolute knowledge.
What is your opinion on Marxs concept of alienation?
Therefore, alienation is a lack of self-worth, the absence of meaning in one’s life, consequent to being coerced to lead a life without opportunity for self-fulfillment, without the opportunity to become actualized, to become one’s self.
What concepts does Karl Marx take from Hegel?
Marx stood Hegel on his head in his own view of his role by turning the idealistic dialectic into a materialistic one in proposing that material circumstances shape ideas instead of the other way around.
What is Marx’s solution to the problem of alienation?
Marx’s solution to overcoming alienation is to remove the conditions creating alienation, rather than modifying or reforming sociey to create greater social organization.
What did Hegel and Marx mean by alienation?
In Hegel’s philosophy, alienation is part of the process of self- creativity and self-discovery. For Marx, it is the result of the capitalist mode of production.
How does alienation affect society?
People who show symptoms of alienation will often reject loved ones or society. They may also show feelings of distance and estrangement, including from their own emotions. Alienation is a complex, yet common condition.
Why is the concept of alienation important?
The concept of alienation is theoretically powerful, because it facilitates the description of the degradation of human life without allowing the assumption that this degradation is natural or inevitable.
How does Marx suggest we solve inequality?
Marxists theorize that inequality and poverty are functional components of the capitalist mode of production: capitalism necessarily produces inegalitarian social structures. Inequality is transferred from one generation to another through the environment of services and opportunities which surrounds each individual.
How does Marx explain the relationship between private property and alienation?
In Marx’s view, the project of superseding alienation is grounded in the contradictory development of private property itself. It takes political form as the revolt of the proletariat against private property; but the proletariat overcomes this its other only by abolishing itself as proletariat at the same time.