SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Class Conflict, Teleology
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Marx identi ed class as an issue for him: was interested in law, later became placing his outlook on society through philosophy. Teleology: cause and e ect relationship that was caused by the past; telos : a purpose or end of phenomena in question: hegel"s telos = human freedom, there"s a reason for why things are; logic driven. Our collective experience of our economic conditions is class structure. Our collective experience of our economic conditions determine out ideas and the dialectical struggles and rebellions that lead to revolutions. All of history is classi ed by class struggle. Era of capitalism: classes/power relations simpli ed to bourgeois and proletarian classes. Why is ownership of the means of production the key criteria distinguishing the two. We create the thing to which are of value to us. Ownership of the means of production is supported by our laws. Friedrich nietzsche studied power from a cultural pov.