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Essay on Marx philosophy alienation and Bentham philosophy utilitarianism
A critical constituent of Marx’s construction is his fight for individual emancipation. What is decisive here is that Marx from the very beginning is beyond the difficulty of previous political philosophy between Rousseau´s and Hegel´s, social ideal with the aid of a trick through the action of the individuals.
“Just as society itself produces man as man, so is society produced by him” (Marx, 1975). Marx’s social production of individuals proves to be the driving substance of all history. But and here we come back to the decisive problem of Marx’s dialectic of history production and reproduction of their living conditions through social work and practice of individuals initially proceeds completely unconsciously in their individually motivated actions, so that to single individuals the respective socially unconsciously produced form of their work and practice do not appear as created production and power conditions and their ideological legitimating retroact as alien powers over acting individuals who actually are their producers. This is what Marx terms alienation.
As chance or in whatever other form, it is a necessary result of the fact that the point of departure is not the free social individual. Such alienation and reversal lies at the base of all social formations. Marx underlines, the basis for the proof of the principal possibility of overcoming the alienation and false conditions lies in the fact that they can be brought to out attention, discovered. Since the alienation is itself a product of social practice even if unconscious it can also be revolutionized, namely through the unified power of individuals who have become conscious, decisive bearers of society who shape it.
While the philosophy of Utilitarianism influenced many of the social reforms in Great Britain during the early half of the nineteenth century. The name most frequently associated with Utilitarianism is that of Jeremy Bentham..................
