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Daet, Jed Froilan T. October 11, 2012
2LM1 PHL 7
Marx' understanding of human nature isn't really any different
than the conventional
understanding of human nature you find in liberal capitalism.
Marx simply pointed out
the problems that occur when you factor in class
relationships
The essence of religion into the essence of man. The essence of
man is no abstraction
inherent in each single individual. In reality, it is the
ensemble of the social relations.
Criticism in religion is obliged in abstract from the historical
process and to define the
religious sentiment regarded by itself, and to presuppose an
abstract isolated - human
individual and the essence therefore can by him only be regarded
as species, as an
inner dumb generalit y which unites many individuals only in a
natural way.
Man is directly a natural being. As a natural being and as a
living natural being he is on
the one hand endowed with natural powers, vital powers, he is an
active natural being.
These forces exist in him as tendencies and abilities as
instincts. As a natural, corporeal,
sensuous objective being he is a suffering, conditioned and
limited creature, like animals
and plants, the objects of his instincts exist outside him, as
objects independent of him;
yet these objects are objects that he needs essential objects,
indispensable to the
manifestation and confirmation of his essential powers.
Men can be distinguished from animals by consciousness, by
religion or anything else
you like. They themselves begin to distinguish themselves from
animals as soon as they
begin to produce their means of subsistence, a step which is
conditioned by their physical
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the exercise of their creative capacity; on the contrary, labor
is alienated by definition in
the capitalist system based on salary, and people only do it
because they have to.
Alienation is the estrangement of humans from aspects of human
nature, for example,
religion. Human nature consists in a particular set of vital
drives and tendencies; whose
exercise constitutes flourishing, alienation is a condition
wherein these drives and
tendencies are stunted. Alienation substitutes disempowerment;
for making one's own life
one's object, one's life becoming an object of capital. Marx
believes that alienation will
be a feature of all society before communism.
Private property is a necessity for certain industrial stages.
The need for revolution talks
about how the contradictions of instruments in a formation of an
industry (big or small)
are necessary. The only thing common here is that productivity
of human beings
existence or in other words self-activity but in the past it was
separated because of
different perspectives of other humans. Self-activity plays a
big role in the industry and
the life of human beings in order to attain liberation of their
lives like what happened to
the liberation of Germany.
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