Marx's theory of human nature | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-13

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00:01:01 1 The sixth thesis on Feuerbach and the determination of human nature by social relations
00:04:31 2 Needs and drives
00:06:48 3 Productive activity, the objects of humans and actualisation
00:07:00 3.1 Humans as free, purposive producers
00:11:12 3.2 Life and the species as the objects of humans
00:13:38 3.3 Humans as ihomo faber/i?
00:15:48 4 Human nature and historical materialism
00:17:45 4.1 Human nature and the expansion of the productive forces
00:22:06 5 Human nature, Marx's ethical thought and alienation
00:22:38 5.1 Alienation
00:23:30 6 Gerald Cohen's criticism
00:25:37 7 References and further reading
00:26:05 7.1 Primary texts
00:26:39 7.2 Accounts prior to 1978
00:27:51 7.3 Recent general accounts
00:29:19 7.4 The debate over human nature and historical materialism
00:31:58 8 See also
00:32:14 9 Footnotes



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Some Marxists posit what they deem to be Karl Marx's theory of human nature, which they accord an important place in his critique of capitalism, his conception of communism, and his 'materialist conception of history'. Marx, however, does not refer to human nature as such, but to Gattungswesen, which is generally translated as 'species-being' or 'species-essence'. According to a note from Marx in the Manuscripts of 1844, the term is derived from Ludwig Feuerbach's philosophy, in which it refers both to the nature of each human and of humanity as a whole.However, in the sixth Theses on Feuerbach (1845), Marx criticizes the traditional conception of human nature as a species which incarnates itself in each individual, instead arguing that the conception of human nature is formed by the totality of social relations. Thus, the whole of human nature is not understood, as in classical idealist philosophy, as permanent and universal: the species-being is always determined in a specific social and historical formation, with some aspects being biological.