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This 5 page paper discusses Karl Marx’s life and works, and the reaction that his contemporaries had to them. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The Life of Karl Marx Research Compiled for The Paper
Store, Inc. by K. Von Huben 10/2010 Please Introduction Karl Marx is one of the most important philosophers in history. This
paper describes his life, how he formed his beliefs, and what his contemporaries thought of him. It also discusses how successful his books were in inspiring his followers. Discussion Considering
Marxs theories about class warfare, one might expect that he was born and raised in poverty, but that isnt the case. He was born in Germany on May 5, 1818,
to a "comfortable middle-class home in Trier on the river Moselle" (Kreis, 2008). When he was 17, Marx enrolled at the University of Bonn and became engaged to Jenny von
Westphalen, who was the daughter of a Baron von Westphalen, "a prominent member of Trier society, and man responsible for interesting Marx in Romantic literature and Saint-Simonian politics" (Kreis, 2008).
However, Marx left the University of Bonn the following year for the "more serious" University of Berlin, where he studied for four years and became interested in Hegelian philosophy, for
which he abandoned the Romantic literature von Westphalen had introduced him to (Kreis, 2008). G.W.F. Hegel "advocated a kind of historically-minded absolute idealism, in which the universe would realize its
spiritual potential through the development of human society" (Hegelianism). Hegels absolutism was in contrast to the thinking of Kant, who advocated a more subjective approach to society; it was Kant
who developed what is called the "categorical imperative," usually expressed as the idea that an action is moral if its the "right" thing to do if its done by everyone
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