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- Marx does not refer to human nature as such, but to Gattungswesen, which is generally translated as "species-being" or "species-essence". According to a note from Marx in the Manuscripts of 1844, the term is derived from Ludwig Feuerbach 's philosophy, in which it refers both to the nature of each human and of humanity as a whole.
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Marx's concept of man is rooted in Hegel's thinking. Hegel begins with the insight that appearance and essence do not coincide. The task of the dialectical thinker is "to distinguish the essential from the apparent process of reality, and to grasp their relations."
Marx's Concept of Man is a 1961 book about Karl Marx's theory of human nature by the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm. The work sold widely thanks to the popularity of Marx's early writings, which was a product of the existentialism of the 1940s.
- Erich Fromm
- 1961
Contents. 1. The Falsification of Marx's Concepts 2. Marx's Historical Materialism 3. The Problem of Consciousness, Social Structure and the Use of Force 4. The Nature of Man 5. Alienation 6. Marx's Concept of Socialism 7. The Continuity in Marx's Thought 8.
So we can see that, even before we begin to consider the precise character of human nature, "real, living" humans, "the activity of man pursuing his aims" is the very building block of Marx's theory of history.
The evolution of man, in all history, is characterized by man's struggle with nature. At one point of history (and according to Marx in the near future), man will have developed the productive sources of nature to such an extent that the antagonism between man and nature can be eventually solved.
concept of man remained essentially the same. Man and Animal Man - or, more exactly, the "potential human being" - is a product of nature. In The German Ideology (1846) , Marx writes:... the first fact to be established is the physical organization of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.1
Mar 24, 2011 · When Marx wrote his Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, he was likewise concerned with the problem of man’s (specifically, the worker’s) relationship to nature. It was part of the worker’s fourfold alienation under capitalist modernity: his estrangement from nature, from the products of his labor, from other people, and from ...
