PHIL 1100 Lecture 2: KARL MARX LABOUR

• School: York University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1100
• Professor: David Stamos

Document Summary

Estrangement/ alienation produce social separation, being cit off from nature. Political economy hides the inherent estrangement of labour -> if we the human world is devalued in proportion to the increased vaporization of the world of things -> things stand over and above human existence. Estrangement or alienation )both from the german entfremdung) show not. The worker sinks to the level of commodity (cid:498)the whole of society must fall apart into the two classes - property owners and properties workers(cid:499) Workers become poorer the more wealth (cid:524)or, later. (cid:499)surplus value(cid:499)(cid:524) they be confused with modern notions of being (cid:498)alienated voluntary, but coerced. (cid:499) Marx, what makes us human (cid:523) our (cid:498)species-being(cid:499)(cid:524) is different our ability to treat ourself as (cid:498)universal(cid:499) show be thinking of aristotle"s conception of human function although, for. Species-being the worker only feels free in their animal function -> estrangement from our.