Assignment on Karl Marx, "Theses on Feuerbach" (1845)

Get  the Marx text here. You have had a crack at this before. Now we are going to look at it more carefully.

Downoad this short work; print it out; bring it to class with you, along with your printed-out HW.

Study these short texts very carefully. They are short, but they are not easy.

Question 1: 100 words.

Study theses I and II very carefully. Paraphrase Thesis I. Put it into your own words.

Question 2: 100 words.

Study Theses IV and VII. Outline Marx's materialist concept of religion.

Question 3: 100 words.

Study Theses V, VI, IX, and X. Outline Marx's concept of human society.

Question 4: 100 words

Study Theses VIII and XI. Why does Marx believe that the job of philosophy has to be to "change the world"?

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