Exam 13: The Materialist: Karl Marx

Marx believed that there was only one uniform reality.

Marx said that he was not a Marxist.

Marx derived the term alienation from

Geist is Mind, or Spirit.

The use of cloudy abstractions to create metaphysical systems that distract us from material reality is known as

Marx referred to the capital accumulated by owners as

Marx confined Hegel s dialectic to

How is Marx s criticism of capitalism linked to both (a) Kantian accounts of the moral community, and (b) Aristotle s account of the good human life? Explain your answer fully.

How might Mill agree with Marx s criticisms of nineteenth century social conditions? Explain your answer, and support it by referring directly to both Marx and Mill. Do you agree with these criticisms? Do you think that they are applicable to society today?

Marx was expelled from London.

Engels supported Marx s arguments with facts.

A Hegelian dialecic is a three-step pattern.

Feuerbach believed that reality was immaterial.

What was Hegel s great error, according to Marx?

If history is governed by social and economic forces and not by ideas, why do you think Marx was so intellectually engaged? Explain your answer fully.

In Marxist terminology, a person who is convinced to further interests that are to his ultimate disadvantage has been

Hegel was a grand systematizer.

Marx wrote the Philosophy of Right .

Hegel thought of history as the unfolding of the Absolute Idea of Man.

The feeling of no being at one with the product of one s labor is called