SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Manual Labour, Dialectic
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General background on alienation: hegel: german ideologist and philosopher. He called the dialectic of master and slaves. Talks about classes in a society: makes distinction between mental labour (master perform higher wages) vs. manual labour (slaves/servants perform working/lower class) Masters are master in intellectual and slave in physical world & slaves are masters in practical and slaves in intellectual world . Positive: the more you own, less physical labour you do, wealthy, consume lots of material, make profit, speak different languages- education, and acquire lot of knowledge. Vulnerable, perish, don"t know how to survive on their own. Conclusion: real master- someone who is independent. Human master is completely dependent on other people, not self-sufficient, ignorant. Manual labour (slaves in terms of physical world): Positive: lot of practical knowledge, lower intellectual knowledge, direct relationship with mediate world. If they revolt for long-period of time they"ll survive, servants have the power (in reality) control basic aspects that needs society to run.
