Cogniton and Marxism
Title: Cogniton and Marxism
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 766 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Cogniton and Marxism
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 766 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Practical Cognition
Theories of Knowledge (Karl Marx)
In his early years of writing, Karl Marx's ideas were similar to American Pragmatism, especially his ideas about epistemology. He defines truth in a pragmatic fashion and explains cognition in terms of practical needs of the human being. While some of his ideas were not followed to their logical conclusion, nor made sense, the fundamentals of his epistemology contain
valuable ideas which can be viewed as furthering pragmatism
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dichotomy is useful. We do not have a word for such a dichotomy. The point is that 'natural' distinctions are still artificially applied by the human intellect upon the world which has no such distinctions inherently, but those distinctions seem natural because they helped humans survive and succeed in their efforts. Marx's theory of knowledge is a form of pragmatism which includes elements of Darwinism that explain how certain types of categorizing became prevalent.