SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: For Marx
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Kant: no one can know absolute truth. But we can know the absolute truth of appearances because we live in a world of appearances. Hegel: the way to do it is by thinking historically. We have to look at things by the way it develops through time, in order to grasp. Even nature is in time and is historical. We cannot predict the future, but there are 3 spheres in our life where we can see the truth the absolute truth. Thought applied to appearances can allow us to look through time. Ability to reason, ability to understand and explain allows us to and grasp the truth grasp the truth. The good - what drives history is a type of spiritual power that is pushing the historical process to wherever it"s going. History has reached its contemporary high point, political struggles the highest of its time. Marx- born 1818 after napoleon was defeated at waterloo.
