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Alienation
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Alienation separates workers from products, activity, human capacities and others in Marx’s early account. The criticism depends on a view of flourishing that also needs examination.
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Guided course · Module 10 · Lesson 60
Becoming an individual: two challenges to inherited values
Kierkegaard’s pseudonym Johannes de Silentio confronts a faith he cannot explain away, and Nietzsche asks how moral judgments acquired their authority. The lesson preserves their differences over what commitment demands.
Guided course · Module 10 · Lesson 58
What does a social system make of a person?
Marx’s accounts of alienation, commodity fetishism and ideology each describe social relations of work and exchange. The lesson distinguishes the three and separates a structural relation from a personal attitude.