Marx Jewish Question Flashcards
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Marx Bio
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- German
- Young Hegelian
- Materialist dialectic
2
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Young Hegelians and Marx
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- Is a member but finds H’s conclusions too conservative
- Wants history and material without geist
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The Jewish Question
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- Bruno Bauer argues against Jewish emancipation
- Any form of religious emancipation limits political freedom
- Must abolish religious differences
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Theological State to Bauer
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- State is one of enslavement
- Opposing theological state by recognizing religion is weird
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Ground for Jewish Freedom Request
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- Political emancipation as citizens rather than on religious ground
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Bauer and Religion
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- Wants it abolished in the German state
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Bauer and Science
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- Science can fix oppositions, religion can’t
- Religion itself is opposition
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Jews and Christians
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- Both shaped by human development, formed to understand position in the world
- To understand historical progress, we must overcome religion
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Marx and Emancipation
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- Jewish emancipation points to religious and political tension
- Doesn’t clarify what happens at resolution
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Bauer and Emancipation
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- Poli eman can only happen in a secular state
- Abolish all religion
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Marx and Political Emancipation
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- It’s been achieved especially in the US
- Isn’t incompatible with religion, framed with religious tolerance
12
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Liberalism
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- Way of poli eman, liberalism through rights
- Demands freedom of conscience
- Freedom analyzed in language of rights
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The Man
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- PE focuses on indiv rights, language of man
- Man is member of community, must focus on membership in humanity
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Egoistic Rights
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- In PE, rights to equality, liberty, sec, and property
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Liberty
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- Connected to property and doing as you please
- Non-interference from the state
- Protects egoist separation of inidivs
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Property
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- Expression of individual self-interest
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Security
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- Protects individual interests
- Collective in lib dem for security
- For absolute freedom, allows protection
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Species Being
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- Central to human emancipation
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Human Emancipation
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- Goes beyond egoism
- No empowering the 1%, need broader communit
- Members of humanity
- Need to liberate people from dependence on capitalism
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Political Emancipation and Emancipation
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- PE leads us away, stunts freedom
- See ourselves as isolated
