Introducing Political Philosophy
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283 printed pages
- Original publication
- 2014
- Publication year
- 2014
Impressions
- Rory Berneshared an impression5 years ago
💡Learnt A Lot
Quotes
- Kamila Yessenovahas quoted3 years ago
Economic Determinism
But then Marx famously discovered that Hegel “stood on his head” and had to be “turned upside down”. What Marx meant was that ideas cannot determine human reality but – the other way round – that objective material forces and economic realities are what determine human ideas. This is why Marx is familiarly known as a “dialectical materialist”. - Kamila Yessenovahas quoted3 years agoHegelian political philosophy was adopted by German “Right Hegelians” who thought that the Prussian State had more or less reached the final dialectical stage of perfect rationality and should remain unaltered. “Left Hegelians” thought that the Hegelian process still had a long way to go. Who can now remember the names of the former? But everyone has heard of the most famous Left Hegelian – Karl Marx
- Kamila Yessenovahas quoted3 years agoIn later works, like Agrarian Justice, Paine argued for some kind of welfare state and redistributive taxation. Paine was a great polemicist who defended ordinary people’s right to debate political principles and agitate for reforms.
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