SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture 3: Karl Marx.docx
16 Dec 2014
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Born in 1818 in prussia (now known as germany) Father was a lawyer of jewish background: spent a lot of time around his father and his father"s intellectual friends, was exposed to egalitarian views about people and society. Emphasized equality and freedom: developed optimistic views on the nature of humanity and the potential of civilization to progress, university education. 1835 enrolled as a law student at the university of bonn. Spent a lot of time in his first year drinking, getting into fights and even was arrested. Was encouraged to transfer to the university of berlin: during his time here he became interested in the work of hegel, switched from studying law into philosophy and graduated a ph. d. in philosophy in 1841, securing employment. Ministry of education in berlin blacklisted marx. The conservative prussian government was criticized by marx thesis supervisor and. Became a journalist: jobs were very short-term.
