Study Guide for Marx and Nietzsche PDF

STUDY GUIDE FOR MARX \ INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM V. AUTHORITY \ \ COMMUNIST MANIFESTO \ \ 1. What drives history\--what is the engine of historical change\--according to Marx? \ 2. How does Marx define \"class\"? \ 3. How many classes were there under feudalism, and how many are there now? How many will th...

STUDY GUIDE FOR MARX \ INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM V. AUTHORITY \ \ COMMUNIST MANIFESTO \ \ 1. What drives history\--what is the engine of historical change\--according to Marx? \ 2. How does Marx define \"class\"? \ 3. How many classes were there under feudalism, and how many are there now? How many will there be in the future? \ \ 4. How did the bourgeoisie/capitalism develop? \ \ 5. What are the consequences of capitalism for: the old aristocracy; the old skilled artisans; small businesses; local industry; the economies and local industry of developing nations; the \"character\" or \"flavor\" of small towns or rural life, and foreign nations, and \"national character\" in general? \ \ 6. What are the political consequences of capitalism? Under capitalism, what function do political institutions serve? \ \ 7. How does the proletariat develop as a class? \ \ 8. What do the communists want? What are they against? \ \ 9. What does Marx say about the right to property? What is his answer to Lockeans who would object to his goals? \ 10. What does Marx say about marriage and the family under capitalism? \ \ 11. How is the proletariat going to achieve its goals? \ 12. What happens to the state after the revolution? \ \ 13. What does Marx mean by the \"epidemic of overproduction\"? (p. 478) \ \ ON THE JEWISH QUESTION \ \ 14. What is the \"Jewish question\"? What is Bauer\'s answer to the problem? \ 15. What does Marx think of Bauer\'s answer? \ 16. According to Marx, what is the difference between political emancipation and human emancipation? How does he define each? \ 17. What does Marx mean when he talks about \"civil society\" and \"political life\"? \ 18. What do the \"rights of man\" serve, and why are they inadequate in producing human emancipation? \ 19. What does Marx mean by \"species being\"? What does he mean by \"egoistic man\"? (pp. 45-6) Which is more true to human nature? \ 20. What do the Jews represent to Marx? How does he view religion in general? Christianity? \ \ THE GERMAN IDEOLOGY \ \ 21. What determines thought, according to Marx? (p. 156-8) \ 22. How is the division of labor under capitalism harmful? (p. 160) \ 23. What does Marx mean by \"estrangement\"? \ 24. How will things be different after the revolution? \ \ STUDY GUIDE FOR NIETZSCHE, ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS \ INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM V. AUTHORITY \ \ PREFACE \ \ 25. What is \"nihilism\"? (\#5) \ 26. What is Nietzsche\'s view of morality? What question does he wish to ask about it? What is he afraid morality\--at least, morality of a specific type\--might do or prevent? \ 27. What is his view of modern man? \ \ FIRST ESSAY \ \ 28. What is the origin of the first moral evaluations? What is the pathos of distance? (\#2) \ 29. What is the revaluation or trans-valuation of values? (\#7-8) \ 30. What is master morality and what is slave morality? \ 31. What is the difference between \"good and bad\" and \"good and evil\"? What is Nietzsche\'s view of Christianity, and how is it related to resentment? (\#10-11) \ 32. What is \"our greatest danger\"?(\#12) \ 33. What is dishonest about slave morality? (\#13) \ 34. Who achieved the upper hand in the long struggle between master morality and slave morality, and what form does slave morality take today, according to Nietzsche? (\#16) \ 35. How does Nietzsche want the struggle to play out in the future? (\#17) \ \ SECOND ESSAY \ \ 36. What is the origin of the conscience? (\#1-3) \ 37. What is the origin of the bad conscience? (\#4-8, 16-18) \ 38. What is the will to power? In what sense is it the fundamental principle of life? (\#11-12, 17-18) \ 39. What does this tell us about law and political institutions? \ 40. What does Nietzsche say about the feeling of indebtedness that accompanies the development of societies, and how this relates to religion? (\#8-9, 19-20) \ 41. How and why is the Christian God created? (\#19-22) \ 42. What does Nietzsche suggest as a way out of our current state of sickness? (\#24) \ \ THIRD ESSAY \ \ 43. What is the will to nothingness? (\#1, \#28) \ 44. What does Nietzsche mean by \"ascetic\" and \"the ascetic ideal\"? (\#1, \#7-20) \ 45. How does asceticism preserve life? How does it depress or sicken life? \ 46. How are the strong effected by asceticism? \ 47. What is Nietzsche\'s view of science and how does he relate it to asceticism? (\#23-28) \ 48. What is Nietzsche\'s view of truth? (\#24-27)