Sociology 2270A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Auguste Comte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, For Marx
13 Apr 2020
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Lecture 9 - karl marx: the radical humanist. Karl marx (1814-1883: philosopher, activist, political economist. Comte fun fact: auguste comte was the subject of one of marx"s many disses: derided comte"s project as a vain attempt at trying to write "recipes for the cook-shops of the future. " Key ideas underlying marx"s thinking: materialist conception of history and social structure, hegel"s influence, the dialectic, the relation of reality to ideas. Superstructure: the cultural aspects of every society: law etiquette, music, politics, religion, media, morality ,etc, these institutions serve to ensure that the base is legitimated and functions smoothly. Synthesis antithesis: the dialectical maxim: things are striving to become in actuality what they always were potentially, changes are generated by the tensions within the very thing itself, not from outside. [marx borrows this "dialectical" method /epistemology to examine tensions within the social system] Hegel"s influence: the relation of reality to ideas. Idealism: ideas are the prime moving force in history.
