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  • Nietzsche: Morality Essay

    Nietzsche: Morality Essay

    Morality Essay Have you ever asked yourself where your conscience comes from? The feeling that takes a hold of you when you do what you feel is wrong. This feeling is almost like a consequence when you tell a lie or commit a crime. Your conscience helps you sort out the good and bad and feels your mind with sorrow when you see a sad story on the news or gives you the initiative

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Nietzsche

    Nietzsche

    As a society, we have become so accustomed to metaphors and empty truths that we absent-mindedly accept them. But if society is told a lie and believes it, does that turn the lie into the truth? For example, in the beginning of the human’s reign on this planet, humans thought the earth was flat only to be proven that the earth was in fact round. But if ordinary humans were told that the earth is

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    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: Jack
  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx

    Karl Marx Karl Marx is often called the father of communism, but his life entailed so much more. He was a political economist, philosopher, and idea revolutionist. He was a scholar that believed that capitalism was going to undercut itself as he stated in the Communist Manifesto. While he was relatively ambiguous in his lifetime, his works had tremendous influence after his death. Some of the world’s most powerful and most populace countries follow his

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

    The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

    The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche TIMELINE * Born: 1844. Rocken, Germany * Died: 1900. Weimar, Germany * Major Works: The Gay Science (1882), * Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885), * Beyond Good & Evil (1886), * On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), MAJOR IDEAS Self deception is a particularly destructive characteristic of West Culture. Life is The Will To Power; our natural desire is to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own

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    Essay Length: 1,876 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Victor
  • Weber Vs. Marx

    Weber Vs. Marx

    Weber destabilizes the relationship between base and superstructure that Marx had established. According to Weber, the concept of historical materialism is naпve and nonsense because superstructures are not mere reflections of the economic base. (“The Protestant Ethic” and “The Spirit of Capitalism (1904-5) Weber agrees that the economy is one of the most faithful forces in modern life. However there are other social and legal factors which exhibit power and thus influence society. These factors

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    Essay Length: 1,311 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Victor
  • The Life of Carl Marx

    The Life of Carl Marx

    Karl Marx was born into a progressive and wealthy Jewish family in Trier, Germany. His father Heinrich, who had descended from a long line of rabbis, converted to Christianity, despite his many deistic tendencies. Marx's father was actually born Herschel Mordechai, but when the Prussian authorities would not allow him to continue practicing law as a Jew, he joined the relatively liberal Lutheran denomination. The Marx household hosted many visiting intellectuals and artists during Karl's

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Top
  • Karl Marx’s Theory of Class

    Karl Marx’s Theory of Class

    Karl Marx is known as an extreme social theorist and has many influences on the current population today. Throughout his studies, his main interests included: politics, economics and struggles that existed between classes in society. In his famous book the Communist Manifesto, he explains how although society was mainly built upon capitalism, it will soon be replaced by communism. This drastic change will occur when the proletariat (the workers) will realize that they have been

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    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: July
  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx

    The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion to the devaluation of the world of men. Labour produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity -- and does so in the proportion in

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    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • Emile Durkheim Vs Karl Marx

    Emile Durkheim Vs Karl Marx

    The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were full of evolving social and economic ideas. These views of the social structure of urban society came about through the development of ideas taken from the past revolutions. As the Industrial Revolution progressed through out the world, so did the gap between the class structures. The development of a capitalist society was a very favorable goal for the upper class. By using advanced methods of production introduced by the

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    Essay Length: 892 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Mike
  • Marx’s Manifesto

    Marx’s Manifesto

    Marx's theoretical work is the understanding of the nature of human beings and how they have constructed their historical world. Marx is considered a modernist because his views and theories fit the meaning of Modernity, which are human freedom and the right to free choice. To Marx, Capitalism is a barrier to the notion of human freedom and choice. Five aspects of his political theory are: how he views human nature, effects of Capitalism on

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    Submitted: March 30, 2010 By: Jon
  • Marx and Private Ownership

    Marx and Private Ownership

    . Marx and private ownership Marx believes that private ownership is unjust because it creates an imbalance in society, that stretchs from unequal distribution, exploitation, and inevitably ending in class conflict. Marx belives that the �liberal’ claim for freedom, development, and progression for the entrupenur, with an open market economy is complex, because basically it divides the mode of production, and the force of production. Wage labourers are forced to work for the middle class,

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    Essay Length: 256 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 8, 2010 By: Yan
  • Nietzsche and Modernism

    Nietzsche and Modernism

    Although Nietzsche isn't responsible for creating modernism, his philosophies were representative of the concerns and uncertainly of the modernist artists. Nietzsche and the modernists shared a dark outlook on society, one that he had called in his works "sick" and weak due to the constraints put upon them by the Christian church, and traditional values that had gone unquestioned for too long. To truly realize oneself, you must break free, denounce this imposed morality and

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    Submitted: April 11, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Marx and Moore

    Marx and Moore

    The biggest difference between the views of Marx and Davis and Moore resides in the issue of the distribution of resources. While Marx believes that there is an inequality in the distribution of resources between the bourgeoisie and proletariat classes, Davis and Moore theorize that inequality has to happen so that the most important positions are filled by the most qualified. Marx perceives society made up as two classes, the powerful and exploitive higher class

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    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Victor
  • Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel: The Individual & Society

    Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel: The Individual & Society

    Each of the four classical theorists Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel had different theories of the relationship between society and the individual. It is the objective of this paper to critically evaluate the sociological approaches of each theory to come to a better understanding of how each theorist perceived such a relationship and what it means for the nature of social reality. Karl Marx noted that society was highly stratified in that most of the

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    Submitted: April 14, 2010 By: Steve
  • Dialogue Between Plato and Nietzsche

    Dialogue Between Plato and Nietzsche

    Philosophy SAC – Dialogue Plato and Nietzsche Plato and Nietzsche are sitting in a park enjoying a light picnic lunch. All of a sudden a man dressed in black, wearing a balaclava run’s past and steals Nietzsche’s Turkey sandwich. Nietzsche: This is preposterous! That immoral man has just stolen my last turkey sandwich! This is a horrible position to be in! Plato: What do you mean Nietzsche? Are you saying that you are in a

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    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Mike
  • Marx and Religion

    Marx and Religion

    Marx attributed the creation of religion to the domination of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie. He saw it as a product of what he called social alienation. He understood the entire existence of humanity as being “divided against itself by the social-class cleavages of society.” He therefore saw religion as a means to comfort the lower classes and keep them docile. In terms of capitalist societies he understood religion as a way to control labor

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Early Vs Late Marx - Was There a Break in Philosophy?

    Early Vs Late Marx - Was There a Break in Philosophy?

    Some scholars believe that there is an ideological break in Karl Marx’s writings where he changes from a Hegelian philosopher to a structuralist who was focused on economics. I feel that this question is difficult to answer without a date or textual specified break in writings. There is definitely a change in the focus and tone of Marx’s writings, but a clear line of theoretical change where a previous belief is discarded does not

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    Essay Length: 338 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Mike
  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx

    Karl Marx was the creator of Marxism and a new type of economy and government. His ideas were appealing to the working class people and emphasized the community rather than the individual. His theories spawned communism and his ideas still remain in effect in some modern day countries. Marx's ideas originate from his experiences in Europe and his collaboration with Frederich Engels. In addition, Marx's work seems to be more of a criticism of Hegelian

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    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: Anna
  • Marx and Mill

    Marx and Mill

    It has long been argued which social structure and government is right for a society. The philosopher Karl Marx argues that Communism is the best choice for government for a society while philosopher John Stuart Mill argues that the best choice for government is democracy. They both make strong arguments for their choices of government, but they both share a common theme and that is that their form of government is designed to help the

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    Submitted: May 8, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx

    Karl Marx one of the most influential and revolutionary (radical) social theorists of all time. Conflict theory has had a tremendous impact on feminist theory, many of the theories are directly derived from his thought. People in Marx’s view are basically good. He had a positive optimistic view of human nature, he believed that humans had been corrupted by society. He believed that people should grab political power and use it for its own emancipation.

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    Submitted: May 8, 2010 By: David
  • Marx on the American Funeral System

    Marx on the American Funeral System

    Marx on the American Funeral System We live a capitalist life and we die a capitalist death. In our lifetime, we become consumers and workers with a set of ideologies that we like to think we made up by ourselves. Our addiction to commodities and false sense of identity follows us even into our funeral homes. In fact, as Americans we prepare ourselves more for our death than a pharaoh in Ancient Egypt. For instance,

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    Submitted: May 10, 2010 By: cristina
  • Debate Between Marx and Weber

    Debate Between Marx and Weber

    To Durkheim, men were creatures whose desires were unlimited. Unlike other animals, they arenot satiated when their biological needs are fulfilled. "The more one has, the more one wants, since satisfactions received only stimulateinstead of filling needs." It follows from this natural insatiability of the human animal that his desires can only be held in check by external controls, that is, by societal control. Society imposes limits on human desires and constitutes "a regulative force

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    Submitted: May 19, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Karl Marx and His Critique of Capitalism

    Karl Marx and His Critique of Capitalism

    Karl Marx and his critique of capitalism The definition of utopia is an ideally perfect place especially in its social, political, and moral aspects (dictionary.com). This paper will discuss the changes in capitalism since Marx?s critique in 1848. Marx?s fundamental critique remains correct today. Marx is still correct about his critique of capitalism because even though there have been changes made to capitalism to prevent some abuses, capitalism still produces inequality, reduces the family relationship,

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    Submitted: May 25, 2010 By: Victor
  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx

    Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx was born into a middle-class home in Trier on the river Moselle in Germany on May 5, 1818. He came from a long line of rabbis on both sides of his family and his father had agreed to baptism as a Protestant so that he would not lose his job as one of the respected lawyers in Trier. At the age of seventeen, Marx enrolled in the Faculty of Law

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    Submitted: May 26, 2010 By: David
  • Why Did Karl Marx Regard the Working Class to Be the only Revolutionary Class Under Capitalism?

    Why Did Karl Marx Regard the Working Class to Be the only Revolutionary Class Under Capitalism?

    Why did Karl Marx regard the working class to be the only revolutionary class under capitalism? By Kevin O' Connor "Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!"- Communist Manifesto Chapter 4 (Ref. 1) In the communist manifesto, Marx divides society into two main classes, the bourgeoisie, who are the owners of the

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    Submitted: May 26, 2010 By: Max

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