SY203 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Economic Ideology, Productive Forces, Only Time
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Materialist perspective: able to show that the very first acts of all societies was always economic because human beings had to satisfy their everyday material needs before anything else. Hegel idealism: philosophic perspective put forward idea that the ultimate condition of human existence and development can be arrived at only through the examination of abstract philosophic categories. Reason,history, and existence: believed that the primary form of subjection is self imposed (slaves consciously agree) Marx objection: categories put forward by hegel refer neither to concrete human activity nor physical reality , but abstract processes grasped as ideas. Ideas do not live or act, they do not have needs, only humans. Inequality and hardship not natural outcomes of history but resulting from social disadvantages: h: it originates from conscious thought existing in the minds of individuals. M: material obstacles to hinder individual freedom: economic necessity binds slave to master.
