SOC 3126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: For Marx, Materialism, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3126
• Professor: Claude Denis

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But the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it"s the ensemble of the social relations: feuerbach, who doesn"t enter upon a criticism of this real essence, is consequently compelled, 1. To abstract from the historical process & to fix the religious sentiment as something by itself & to presuppose an abstract isolated human individual: 2. It"s what marx calls it treats material reality in a form of an object or of contemplation, something to look at or understand but as a kind of static object: that"s theses #1. 2: role of science in social life and history. If we want to understand what importance thinking has in society we have to consider it as a practical question, what do people do out of their thinking. Marx wants to change society: what were people doing when they invented religious conceptions, feuerbach fails to see religious sentiments is itself a social product,