SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Commodity Fetishism, Class Conflict, The Communist Manifesto
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Social theorists associate the young marx with the ambition of overturning the idealist philosophy of hegel: progressive attempt to place his thoughts in a scientific basis (like lenin, marx"s work was the beginning of a sociological approach. Hegel (1770-1831) took the key ideas of the enlightenment and the french. Revolution and theorized that all of history must be following an inevitable progression toward perfect human freedom, a state in which human beings would be full self-realized. Hegel had an idealistic philosophy while marx had a materialistic philosophy. Hegel"s idealist philosophy is teleological, because it rests on a telos: an idea of a central innate purpose or end" of the phenomena in question. Teleological thinking tends to be abstract, speculative, and logic-driven: not concrete or emerging out of actual observations, goes back to era before modernity/science, but basic ideas/theories. Telos of hegel"s philosophy: wrote about human freedom, thus his telos is human(ity)
