Early WritingsThe three major writings in this excellent volume are: "On the Jewish Question", "Contributions to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Introduction" and "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts." All were published originally in 1844 when Marx was 26 and present the "humanist ethic" of this controversial figure, as well as the relation between his early Hegelian idea and his later sociological investigations. |
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... moral views , but he was not a moral philosopher ; his criticism of capitalist society and his moral vision of the future socialist society both resemble those of a religious thinker . Moreover , this religious conception of the world ...
... moral views , but he was not a moral philosopher ; his criticism of capitalist society and his moral vision of the future socialist society both resemble those of a religious thinker . Moreover , this religious conception of the world ...
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... moral ideal is the worker who takes a part of his wages to the savings bank . It has even found a servile art to ... moral science , and the most moral of all sciences . Its principal thesis is the renunciation of life and of human needs ...
... moral ideal is the worker who takes a part of his wages to the savings bank . It has even found a servile art to ... moral science , and the most moral of all sciences . Its principal thesis is the renunciation of life and of human needs ...
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... moral laws . The absence of needs , as the principle of political economy , is shown in the most striking way in its theory of population . There are too many men . The very existence of man is a pure luxury , and if the worker is " moral ...
... moral laws . The absence of needs , as the principle of political economy , is shown in the most striking way in its theory of population . There are too many men . The very existence of man is a pure luxury , and if the worker is " moral ...
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abolish accumulation activity Adam Smith alienated labour ancien régime appears atheism Bauer become BRUNO BAUER capital capitalist Christian civil society commodity competition conceived concept consciousness consequence contradiction criticism demand division of labour economist Editor's note egoistic elements essence exchange existence expression external faculties feudal Feuerbach German greater Hegel Hegel's Philosophy human Ibid increase individual industry interest Jewish question Judaism Karl Marx landed property landlord landowner large landed property liberty man's manuscript Marx Marx's material means MICHIGAN modern monopoly moral nations nature necessary negation object objectification owner particular Philosophy of Right Physiocrats political economy political emancipation practical private property production profit reality relation relationship religion religious rent of land secular self-alienation self-consciousness sense sensuous SMITH social species-being species-life sphere spirit superseded equals supersession tenant tion universal wages wealth whole worker