Marxist humanists

Throughout the first couple weeks of school, I have read and reflected on some readings and fragments that have led my train of thought develop analytical ideas. Although, one universal idea was brought to my attention, which is the concept of perspective. Around the globe, perspectives have been and are being shaped by influences in both hand sides simultaneously. Viewpoints are established and changed in both ways in the two reading Ways of Seeing by John Berger and Banking Concepts of Education

Humanism. Humanists view the supernatural as nonexistent. There is no such thing as a God, no afterlife, and no souls. Any deity created comes from the mind of a human. In Secular Humanism philosophy, the best fitting word to describe it would be materialism. There is no supernatural, there is no thought, there is no logic, only the material and physical. Ethics are subjective to mankind. Make makes the rules, and man abides by the rules. For Secular Humanism and biology, the Humanist Manifesto I

(Ward, p.1). In this essay I will argue that although perhaps not inherently intentionally, both liberal and realism, in all of their forms, represent hegemonic ideology, and that this has been proven throughout history, and therefore support much of Marxist theory surrounding capitalism and the power of the bourgeoisie class, both on a domestic and global scale. Critical theorists share 4 assumptions: firstly they dispute realism in their belief that human nature is effected majorly by social changes

With a world-centred approach, Louis Althusser’s Marxist notion of ideological state apparatuses demonstrates the influential dominance of the educational system and media. ‘Fahrenheit 451’ follows an enforcer of society’s ideological values despising the communicative ideological state apparatus (i.e. media) and forcibly tearing himself away from the ideologies enforced by both repressive and ideological state apparatuses. Complimentary to Marxist critical theory, Michel Foucault’s notion of poststructuralism

liberal-pluralist and Marxist approaches as well as the role of media in

At the core of the humanist agenda was the idea of virtue, or behavior with a great moral standard. A man named Francesco Petrarch helped to found these beliefs, by studying classic Roman sources such as the scholar Cicero. Petrarch believed that these classics works could

Esther Park REL 321: Humanism & NRMs Assignment #5 What is Humanism? Religion is practical and it works and American’s like religion because it works. American’s like thing that work therefore religion continue to be a part of our world. If religion didn’t work people would not do it. Religions are born and changed over time accordingly. This statement was a bold one made by the professor from UCSB. Religion moves and changes shape because it changes as the time changes. Religion is contact and

1b. Summarize Marx’s views on the market, alienation, the labor theory of value, the surplus value, and the accumulation of capital. Are these views relevant in the 20th century and during the contemporary globalization? If so, how? How are these views related with Thorstein Veblens ideas? Please give specific reference to the relevant readings. Theory of Alienation--his analysis of how people are bound to become estranged from themselves and each other under the conditions of capitalist industrial

Marxist views can be frequently spotted within William Blake’s works. The argument that “human interactions are economically driven and are based on a struggle for power between different social classes” is deeply rooted within the lines of Blake’s work. (Gardner, Pg. 146). In fact, “The Chimney Sweeper,” which was first published in 1789, a full half a century before Karl Marx first publicized his Marxist theory in 1848, has several instances of Marxist tones. Critic, Janet E. Gardner, argues that

Very few viewers of adverts decode images passively. Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright argue that there are very few viewers who decode images passively because there is no mass culture. This is because each viewer has different contexts and social backgrounds meaning that the images they view can be decoded in various ways because of their frame of reference and background. However the subject of how audiences decode and view media including advertising can be seen in various different perspectives