PHIL 1002 Study Guide - The Communist Manifesto, Eau De Cologne, Cretinism
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1835-1841 (ages 17-23): studies law in bonne, philosophy and history in berlin, and completes his doctorate in jena. 1841-1843 (ages 23-25): editor of cologne"s reinische zeitung. 1843 (age 25): moves to paris, meets engels. 1848 (age 30): returns to cologne to edit neue reinische zeitung. 1849 (age 31): arrested and expelled from prussia. 1867 (age 49): first volume of das kapital published. Aristotle emphasized that what makes for a good life is our engaging in a certain sort of activity not just how we feel during our lives. Marx picks up on this thought and defends the idea that our capability for certain sort of creative work is what makes us distinctively human, and engaging in such work is essential to having a good and meaningful life. Athenians generally) wouldn"t have considered work to be an important activity of this sort (that was what slaves were for), but both marx and aristotle could agree with the claims that:
