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| Karl Marx: Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) was a German philosopher and economist whose ideas played a major role in the development of modern political and economic thought, as well as the socialist and communist movements. His major works include The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital, and Critique of the Gotha Programme. See also Marxism, Communism, Socialism, F. Engels, Economic systems._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Otfried Höffe on Marx - Dictionary of Arguments
Höffe I 369 Marx/Höffe: Alienation:HöffeVsMarx: It is (...) not wrong to intertwine two concepts of alienation: the socio-psychological alienation, that "someone or something becomes a stranger to you", and the economic-legal alienation, that "someone sells property". But Marx argues the more far-reaching thesis that both alienations are two sides of one and the same process. Because this thesis is neither substantiated nor plausible, the socio-political goal cannot convince that a change in the economic form, the abolition of private property, the socio-psychological change, will bring about the person who is no longer alienated. >Alienation. Changes/HöffeVsMarx: (...) a change in economic form [comes about] only through a change in people. In Hegel's terms, "objective morality", the world of institutions, is only a counterpart to "subjective morality", human responsibility, not a substitute for it. Höffe I 370 In Hegelian terms, [Marx] generally overestimates the weight of the economy over that of law and state within the framework of objective morality. >Customs/Hegel. Theory/HöffeVsMarx: Even a theory that is compelling in argumentative terms cannot produce the corresponding practice itself. For this it needs an essentially practical moment: the approval of the allegedly compelling theory, its recognition. >Practise._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Höffe I Otfried Höffe Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19