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in a couple of lines chat Karl Marx, die author of \arious books, had died.
Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk [1851-1914] published a critique of Marx's
economic ideas'^ in 1 896. but it >\'as onh' 20 years later that people began
to consider Marx a philosopher.
The ideas of Marx and of his philosophy truK* dominate our age. The
interpreuoon of current evmcs and the mterprrtaDon of histon- m popular
books, as well as m philosophical vkntings. nofvels, plays, and so forth, air
b>' and large Marxist. At the center is the Marxian phik>soph\' of history.
From this philosopln* is borrourd the term "dialecacal." which is apphed
to all his ideas But this is noc so important as it ts to rrahze what Marxist
nuterialism means.
Materialism has rvbt> differrni mcamnp. The fint irfrrs exdusivrly to
ethical problems. A material man is interested onK* in material
things—food, drink, shelter—not m an. cxilturr. and so forth In this sense,
the nujonrv of nten arc materialises The second meaning of nuterialism
refers (o a special group of solimons proposed to a basic philosophical
pntblem—the relation betwren the human mind or soul on the one ude,
:knd the hunun bod> and the ph>'siolo|cical tunctKMtt of the bod>' on the
other %idc V'aritms amsfcrrs to this problem ha\r been oflrtrd—anKMig
them rrligMms anss%m We kno^ stt> %^rU thai there ts a connection
betwren KhIv and mind, surgery* has pnnrd that certom damages to the
brain bring about certain changes in the function of the human mand.
Himrsrr. nuterialists of this second s'anet>- expiun all manifirsutiom of
the hunun mind t% pnxiu^ts ol the bod>
Aimmg thev phiUnophiial nuierulnts. therr are Omo schools of
(houglit
A i^hw uhool iiNmders man as a maihine This machine s'ariety of
iiuicruhsis WIS these pntbletm are srrv smiple—the human "machine**
\sink\ prr«.i\elv a% am itther machine v^swks A Frrnchman. Julien dc La
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and itHbv itunv petifle still want to expbtn all operations ol the human
mind, direith or indtmtK. as it the> ^rrr mechanical operations. For
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