PHIL 1100 Lecture 6: Karl Marx-from Grundrisse
3 Oct 2017
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Outline the goal, connected to last, is to examine what is being said about meaning and life. The individual: examine individuals producing in real social circumstances (themselves and society) ideological fiction of the isolated individual points out that many philosophers and economists being with this fiction as the basis of their analysis but it is historically . I this society of free competition, the individual appears detached from the natural bonds etc. which in earlier historical periods make him the accessory of a definite and limited human conglomerate. Smith and ricardo still stand with both feet on the shoulders the eighteenth-century prophets . As the natural individual appropriate to their notion of human nature, not arising historically, but posited by nature. Marx points out that the further back we go into history the ore this fiction of the isolated individual beeches tenuous > the more the individual is seen as individuated or socially dependent.
