Questions tagged [alienation]
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For Kierkegaard, how does being "animal" and "rational" compel us to invent meaning?
I'm working through "Alienation and Freedom" by Richard Schmitt right now.
In explaining alienation and it's precondition, he posits:
"The need for infusing one's life with meaning arises, as Kierkegaard
understood, through the duality of human…
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How can Marx be a materialist yet still speak of a human "essence" in his theory of alienation?
On one hand, Marx is a staunch materialist: he bases his theory of history on dialectical materialism, and denies any metaphysical realities above and beyond the material conditions that make human society the way it is. In the preface to A…
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Right wing approaches to alienation?
Alienation is associated mainly with Marx, but it seems to me that there's nothing inherently socialist or leftist about the problem or its potential solutions. One might argue that while Marx was right about the problem itself, socialism and…
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What does Foucault mean by the "non-being of madness"?
I am quoting pages 175 and 176 from Madness and Civilization Chapter VI: Doctors and Patients [Vintage Books Edition 1988 which I believe is the standard edition]. Foucault is writing about the classical period.
Its [i.e.madness] double nothingness…
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What is alienation from Hegel's perspective?
I'm not a professional philosopher. I'm only a curious person taking an interest in Hegel and Marx and I was reading Peter Singer's book named Hegel: A Very Short Introduction since I was trying to understand the basic ideas of Hegel for a class I'm…
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Does it matter if we never achieve the results of our being good?
I mean "good" broadly speaking. That could mean anything. It seems like we are bombarded with people who live, at least overtly, moral lives but who are somehow fake. The word "result" reminds me of an English language translation of "karma".
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Does anyone claim that all alienation is fetishism for Marx?
rather than equating alienation and fetishism, fetishism is better
thought of as a particular form that alienation might take. (To be
clear, there looks to be no reason to think that Marx would, or
should, disagree with this claim.)
The…
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Can the capitalist class realise they are alienated?
I was taught that even the most self interested bourgeois is alienated, I think due to having to continually invest capital in competition with other capitalists. As so called state capitalism seems to have collapsed, and not be coming back easily,…
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