Hegel

I cant say I fully grasped the concepts of Hegel in his chapter in  A History of Western Philosophy, but through the seminars and lectures I think I have come to grasp some the main concepts of which Hegel believed in (but not in too much detail though). So I will try to explain to my knowledge what Hegel believed in.

Karl Marx

• 'Capitalism comes into the world dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt'. This is a famous quote from Karl Marx.
• Marx was born to a Jewish family in 1818. He converted to Lutherism.
• He first studied Law then Philosophy, but finally decided to become a journalist. He was influenced by Hegel.
• He was pushed out of Germany and France and pretty much everywhere else in Europe because of his radical views. He finally settled in London in 1848, where he lived for the rest of his life. he was buried in Highgate cemetery.
• He believed that everything had somehing to do with the economy. E.g. people live were they live because of the economy.

• Unlike other philosophers Marx wanted to get his hands dirty and make a change, instead of just talking about his ideas like other philosophers did.
• Marx based his views on real life and facts, which is (materialism). He used to go to the British Museum and look through artifacts for decades, just to gather facts.
• Marx's theory on Alienation rests first on his theory of human nature. Which is the human need for shelter,clothing, food and sex.
• Marx wrote in the time of the industrial revolution, so he thought that factory workers were Alienated because they would each have there job to do in  an assembly line. Without even knownig what the final product would look like or be once it had left there station of the assembly line. So in  that sense the workers would be alienated from the final product and from the other workers on the assembly line and in the factory.
• According to Karl Marx Communism is the final outcome, the communist state is the best possible situation.