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Marx’s Ontology of Man and the Telos of History | James Lindsay

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Karl Marx and the Rousseauian Vision

Karl Marx says man has to be made dialectically to live in society which is ultimately the Rousseauian vision but now we're going to package that up in terms of the Hegelian dialectic. The goal is to figure out what is the absolute state of man in the society he lives in because we don't have the absolute idea  which is the actualization of God then shows us what it's supposed to look like and it just manifests from that. So I've got a quote to warm you up from Karl Marx about being a being only considers himself independent when he stands on his own feet and he only does so if he can do it alone. He also calls Eric Fogland

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