Tag Archives: the individual
Labor and production — social versus individual
Today, I am reviewing the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx, in The Marx-Engels Reader (Second Edition). The underlying theme developed in this work is showing labor as an estranging activity for humanity. Marx argues that the … Continue reading
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Adam Smith’s invisible hand
The concept of the invisible hand is popularly known to be propitiated in the work of Adam Smith. This idea is explored in his The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library), as Smith writes that:
Ancient themes for contemporary life — or perhaps not
The Iliad of Homer, Books 17-24 As individual volition in The Iliad motivated the last post, the remainder of the tome is taken up with more Achaian-Trojan conflict, and this post is motivated by the implications and climax of the … Continue reading
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