POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - German Idealism, Spritsail, Industrial Revolution
Document Summary
The rise of the west and marxism- (modernity) 17th 18th century"s innovations began spreading across europe from united. British got rich from multiple plunders, thefts from other nations. Twin revolutions 16th-19th centuries agricultural and industrial. Agricultural revolution: may be the hyperbole to the word revolution. Luxuries came to be seen as mere decencies and decencies came be seen as necessities. Distribution highly uneven but now creation of middle class that had risen from manual labor to professional or entrepreneurial status. Need to accommodate new groups within politics. What kind of food they eat alcohol they drink. Feuerbach and the critique of german idealism (hegel) The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways: the point is to change it marx, theses on feuerbach. Taking everything that"s good inside us and putting it outside of us (god) - god did not create god men created god. Injustice, you must go to the material causes.
