Core Of Consciousness: Karl Marx

Core of Consciousness The world today is anthropocentric, in which we assume that the most essential and central entities in the world are human beings. This is why we will be dissecting section by section the fractions of what we call “human beings”, including what makes one such, and what makes one deviate from being a “human being”. I, being a human being myself and a citizen of this democratic state, will help you explore how the latter concepts are linked, and probably the main cause of the social issues regarding politics in the country. Karl Marx stated that man is directly a natural being. This may be explained in five different points of view: First, human beings are very involved in the activity of gratifying their own senses through …show more content…
Marx inherited the Hegelian idea of alienation. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel believed that “by transcending the purely material, ‘Man’ (in the sexist language of the day) became more truly human, ever more a social creature (characterized by Mind) and even further removed from his purely animal origins and from preoccupation with basic problems of a merely material existence”. Marx inverted this idea. For him, alienation takes many forms such as a human being’s alienation from his own, his work process, his products, his social relations, and most importantly, his species-being. He stated that alienation could be ended by going beyond what is totally, completely, absolutely material at the level of the mind, because it was by the means of social production alone, above all in production that human beings rein in nature to human ends. Up to now, human beings have failed to do so, which mean that alienation will inevitably still occur at this …show more content…
A concrete example of how alienation would cause the social issue of inequality under this case is the following: MCGI or Members Church of God International, which is a religious sect with Mr. Eliseo Soriano as the presiding minister, has a very particular modest dress and grooming code. Women are prohibited to cut their hair, nor wear expensive jewelry and denim pants, while men are not allowed to have long hair. Failure to comply with those rules results in the prevention of joining the assembly, which is a form of alienation in itself. Fashion, which is also an aspect culture under social organization, takes part of the process of alienation if, say, a woman who wanted to make a fashion statement by having her hair cut in a new style, and also by wearing jewelry of her taste, was blocked from the entrance of the assembly of their headquarters as she went to do her normal routine of taking part of a religious activity, resulting, presumably, in not being able to do what she originally was going to