SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Social Change, Ibm Officevision
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Topics: marx and engels: capitalism, social class, class struggle and social change. Marx"s time: two major philosophical positions: hegel: idealism : ideas determine social change. Labour we can think about are labour pains in terms of giving birth, we get what is the most valuable to us, not through own labour, but through somebody else"s. So, the idea of conceptualisation, the idea of having an idea in your mind and you beginning to make it by using certain materials to make it and that"s the concept of agency. He argues that animals do not have agency, but it looks like they do. Agency would be a lion thinking i"m feeling a little bit depressed today so i"ll let the deer. Labour possible the response of marx"s and marxists has been it"s not a question of totally possible or not, but it is possible to reduce at least the degree of alienation.
