Karl Marx, A Summary of his Life

Karl Marx

Karl Marx was born into a progressive Jewish family in Prussian Trier (now in Germany). His father Herschel, descending from a farsighted line of rabbis, was a lawyer and his brother Samuel was--like many of his ancestors--chief rabbi of Trier. The family draw was originally Marx Levi, which derives from the old Jewish surname Mardochai. In 1817 Heinrich Marx converted to the Prussian state religion of Lutheranism to keep his position as a lawyer, which he had gained under the Napoleonic regime. The Marx family was very spacious and the Marx household hosted many visiting intellectuals and artists during Karls early life.

Education

Marx received sincere marks in gymnasium, the Prussian secondary education school. His major(postnominal) thesis, which anticipated his later development of a social digest of religion, was a treatise entitled Religion: The Glue That Binds Society unneurotic, for which he won a prize.

In 1833 Marx enrolled in the University of Bonn to study law, at his fathers behest. He joined the Trier Tavern Club and at one point served as its president; his grades suffered as he spent most of his time singing songs in beer halls. The future(a) year, his father made him transfer to the far more wicked and academically oriented Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin (now known as the Humboldt University).

Marx and Young Hegelians

In Berlin, Marxs interests turned to doctrine, much to his fathers dismay, and he joined the caboodle of students and young professors known as the Young Hegelians, led by Bruno Bauer. Some members of this circle drew an analogy between post-Aristotelian philosophy and post-Hegelian philosophy. A nonher Young Hegelian, Max Stirner, applied Hegelian review article and argued that stopping anywhere short of nihilistic egoism was mysticism. His views were not accepted by most of his colleagues, and Karl Marx responded in...

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