Exam 13: The Materialist: Karl Marx

What is the final epoch of history, for Marx?

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

Saint-Simon believed that economic conditions determined history.

Who wrote of eudaimonia ?

Who owns the means of production, for Marx?

What are Marx's criticisms of capitalism? Do you believe that they are (a) factually accurate and (b) legitimate? Explain and justify your answers.

A Hegelian dialectic is a three-step pattern.

What is not a "means of production," for Marx?

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.

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.

How might Mill agree with Marx's criticisms of nineteenth century social conditions? Explain your answer, supporting 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?

Engels held that the state is abolished.

A Hegelian dialectical process is an evolutionary cycle.

Marx died in England.

What was Hegel's great error, according to Marx?

Marx was expelled from London.

Hegel was a grand systematizer.

The proletariat own the means of production.

Marx held that labor produces marvels for the wealthy.

Marx derived the term "alienation" from