The Idea of Progress Flashcards
(41 cards)
Hegel background-Russel
WHen?
what was he?
German 1770-1831
- tutor
- controversial marriage
- close with sister
Hegels work
-influence?
Hard to understand. His influence was immense
What is Hegels basic idea?
- what is reality?
- how is reality both clear and unclear?
There is a unity of everything.
- Reality can be described as the absolute.
- There is a certain amount of self-evident logic. It can’t contradict itself. Yet is contains all kinds of falsehoods.
Hegel- The absolute
- what is everything we see?
- what are we working toward?
Everything we see is partial, partly true and false. We are working toward the absolute, and our consciousness becomes disclosed in it.
Hegel -Human history
- where is it?
- what are humans working out?
- At the center of the progress.
- Humans are working out the problem of the knowledge of the absolute.
How do humans work out the problem of the absolute?
in a triadic process- the way we think. Dialectic.
What direction are we moving? (Hegel)
Forward, despite the historical setbacks.
Hegel and art
- what is it supposed to reveal?
- what is its role now?
- Art is supposed to reveal the absolute.
- Hegel thinks art has already played its role and now it is played out. It used to be really important but now its philosophy, politics and economies. It is not a front line innovator.
Marx - Background Where? -when? -dad and grandfathers -what did he study?
Born in Germany
1818-1883
-father was a lawyer -converted to protestant
-Grandfather and great grandfathers were rabbis
-lived in Paris and Brussels most of life in London
-studied law
Marx- slogan
“criticize everything” - don’t take things for granted
Marx- Russinan revolution
was never in Russia, didn’t speak russian. He didn’t have anything to do w the russian revolution he was dead. He influenced it though.
who are the bourgeoise?
A revolutionary class, the most revolutionary in human history. It is simpler, demystify, and strips aside the cloud of reality.
What did Marx write and when?
“The Critique of the bourgeois society” 1848
Where do the bourgeois come from?
A class struggle. They come out of class collisions- Hegelian flow of history.
The bourgeois is the …..class
The proletariat is the…..class
capitalist
working
Globalization - good or bad Marx?
Demolition of the importance of nations/boundaries because of the reach of business. Corporate enterprises have greater interests and importance than nations.
-This is good because he thinks allegiances and boundaries are stupid.
Centralization of cities
good or bad Marx?
Massive cities with lots of poverty are another aspect of industrialism. Good! Have reduced the population for the idiocy of rural life.
Why Centralization?
good, concentration of people with the potential of political centralization and organization.
What is Marx impressed with with regards to the bourgeois?
It got us organized. Before them none got much work done. They show what production man’s activity can bring out. Marx is impressed with the product capacity that nobody had any clue about before.
What is the problem with the giant production ?
It cannot be controlled. Bourgeois produces its own grave diggers- creates a class of people that are rising as an antagonistic class..
Overproduction
conditions of society are too narrow. Ability to consume has been reduced. Condition of the working class was so depressed that is couldn’t buy the stuff.
Working class gets….?
- what does this result in?
- what is the predicament?
squished. -has no resources. Labors become a commodity an article of commerce. Alienation of the worker from the product.
- only have enough to survive.
What does the art culture depend on?
division of leisure and a working class.
What is the value of something equal to?
the values of the resources that are invested in them?
