SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ludwig Feuerbach, Social Alienation, Labour Power
2 Mar 2013
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Chapter 13: the philosophical orientations of karl marx (1818- revolution = transformation of the social system. Marx had a conception of natural man" the individual human being, his needs, and his potential for development. Man"s essential powers his latent and potential human powers are unlimited in their capacity for development. Man"s latent creative powers were stifled and repressed under the social conditions of all class societies. Capitalism, was not only preventing the fulfillment of his potential, it was even depriving hum of his animal needs fresh air, food, sex, and so on. Marx thus condemned the capitalist system for its effect on individual human beings. The workers" needs were now at the barest and most miserable level oh physical subsistence" and their activity for the better part of their waking day was a tedious and repetitive mechanical movement. For instead of developing his essential human powers, man was being debased and deformed and thus becoming something less than an animal.
