PHIL102 Week 9 Lecture - Marx

Flashcards on Karl Marx's theories and concepts.

Materialism

The practical, transformative relationship with the natural world

Hegel's view of human history

Humanity's self-conscious awareness of its own free, historical nature

Forms of Spirit (Geist) - Hegel

Differing social patterns of thinking and action

Vorstellung - Hegel

A representation or 'picture-thought' of the truth about human freedom

Feuerbach's 'species-being' - The Essence of Christianity (1841)

Human potential and capacity

Alienation

Separation from something that ought really to seem like an extension of yourself

Alienated (or ‘estranged’) labour

Separation from oneself, from others, and from the conduct and results of collective activity

Species-being (Marx's Recast)

Humanity's capacity to shape itself - collective power from material social relations

Historical Materialism

A theory of historical change centered around the changing capacities of different social formations

Forces of Production

Capacity to produce goods and material life (i.e. technology, labour, etc.)

Relations of Production

The ways in which production is organised (i.e. the division of labor; relations between people: ownership, dependence, etc.)

Commodities

Items for sale on the market

Capital

Value that has the capacity to grow

Capital (Social Relation)

A social relation between persons which is mediated by things

Socially Average Labor Time

The value of a commodity is determined by how long it would take anyone, on average, to produce it