POL320Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Productive Forces, Young Hegelians
22 Mar 2017
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Rationale kernel somewhere in hegel"s thought but need to get rid of the mystical shell, transform hegel. It is matter not the mind that is the basic causal factor. History can be understood with a materialist base. Hegel"s development of the philosophy of history is contigent upon the clash of ideas. The clash that takes place is one of material forces. Young hegelian who wants to turn away from hegel"s idealism unlike feuerbach. The problem with feuerbach is he didn"t learn anything from hegel, Empiricists neglect the role of human activity in creating the world perceived by the senses. It"s not as easy as creating heaven on earth by changing our conscious. We can only change the world through human activity. Idea of the future potential in the present. Men do not make history as they please. We have to work within a particular historical context. Freedom is part of what it means to be human.
