Sociology question on Marx

Sociology question on Marx

1. Briefly outline the relationship between, Hegel, Feuerbach and Marx

Hegel who was an idealistic philosopher he developed the theory of

dialectical. Hegel applied the dialectic theory to the history of

human society; he used idealism instead of materialism. Hegel moveable

variables in his dialectic were human ideas and thoughts. He came to a

conclusion that society is essentially an expression of people’s

thoughts. Hegel also claimed that when a conflict occurs between an

idea or thoughts, new ideas or concepts are created and adopted by

society so that improvements can occur and society can progress

forward for the good of everyone.

Feuerbach was a philosophiser who criticised Hegels uses of

philosophical ideas. Feuerbach claimed that ideas didn’t create

reality, but held that reality creates ideas (materialism). Feuerbach

had a floor in his materialism concept his floor was that he saw ideas

as automatically stemming from being a part of society and claimed ‘to

be is to know’, which means Feuerbach claim that ideas come from a

person experience in society.

Karl Marx took aspects of both Feuerbach and Hegel work, and adapted

them to his own way of thinking; because of this Marx work falls into

the centre of the objective and subjective spectrum. Marx took Hegels

subjective dialectic and applied it to the area of class conflict to

the dialectic instead of ideas and thoughts that Hegel applied it to.

Marx adopted Feuerbach theory of materialism, which he claimed society

was created by ideas (‘to be is to know’). Although Marx used these

two-pieces of philosophical theories into his work he added ...

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...ole determinate. Marx

argues that lots of various institutions and parts of society work

together for the mutual gain of society and its members, not just the

economic factors. Marx claimed that revolutions can be successful, but

they depend on two factors firstly the main factor is economic

situation; the second factor is human initiative. He stated that

people must make their own reality, which means that if people want to

change anything in society or else where they have to flight for it.

Marx described his economic infrastructure as ‘ultimately determinant

element in history’. Marx friend Engels argued that the economic

infrastructure does uses economic factors for its base, but the

superstructure incorporates the economic factors and applies them to

society to show the affects it has on historical struggle.