Introducing Marx: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

by Rius

The young Marx didn’t ask himself “what to do?” in the sense of “how can I earn a living?” But “what is the meaning of my life and what purpose should it serve…?

What is my life's Purpose?

Immanuel Kant (Hegel’s great predecssor) argued that you could suppose God’s existence, but no system could prove it. Hegel instead seeks to justify the IDEA of god… How? Hegel proposes a system of panlogism (from the Greek pan, all, and logos, reason).

Kant vs Hegel

Hegel’s Philosophy of History which attracted Marx. According to Hegel, humanity advances and progresses only because of conflicts wars, revolutions; that is, through the struggle of the oppressed against oppressors. Peace and Harmony – he used to say – don’t make for progress…

Hegel's Philosophy

“Hegelians of the right” and “left”. The left defended their teachers most progressive ideas, the right stuck to Hegel’s spiritual and conservative side…

Left vs Right

Philosophy started as Criticism of religious beliefs. By seeking logical reasons for the things in nature, mankind created the Science of philosophy…*

Philosophy

religion had to invent some kind of science for itself (Theology = The philosophy of divinity) To justify its existence.

Theology

THALES Of miletus is considered the father of philosophy. He lived four centuries before christ and devoted himself to astronomy and scientific enquiry into nature…

Father of Philosophy

Plato 3 Statement

“Objective Idealism”, according to which all things are the mere shadows of ideas. Ideas are eternal, while things are transitory…

Plato's Objective Idealism

One of Aristotle’s most interesting discoveries is that social conflicts arise from the inequality in Economic and Social conditions… Some are rich and some are poor. And the gods have nothing to do with that… It all depends – ‘ARY’ Thought – on who’s got the rich, it’s called Oligarchy.

Aristotle

Idealism starts by assuming the existence of super-natural and divine forces… Materialism considers that there is nothing beyond natural things…

Idealist vs Materialist

WHY METAPHYSICAL..? Metaphysics, from the Greek, “Placed beyond physics”.* In metaphysics, things are unchanging (i.e immutable), given once and for all, without inter-relationship, and hence may be examined independently, one from the other

Metaphysics