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Marx and Ethics

Marx and Ethics

Paperback

Series: Clarendon Paperbacks

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0198239327
ISBN13: 9780198239321
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: May 9 1991
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This book traces the development of Marx's ethics as they underwent various shifts and changes during different periods of his thought. In his early writings, his ethics were based on a concept of essence much like Aristotle's, which Marx tried to link to a principle of universalization similar to Kant's categorical imperative. In the period 1845-46, Marx abandoned this view, holding morality to be incompatible with his historical materialism. In the later work he was less of a determinist. Though he no longer wished to reject morality, he did want to transcend a morality of burdensome obligation and constraint in order to realize a community built upon spontaneous bonds of solidarity.

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