Explaining The Materialism Of Karl Marx

Explaining the materialism of Karl Marx

Materialism is presented within philosophy as one of the two main currents that the philosophical study manages and this is born from the separation between the belief that it is first or primary;Having idealism on the one hand that tries to explain how philosophy is conceived by making the belief of ideas as a functional and primary engine in knowledge and the ways of explaining reality philosophically. Therefore, it should be taken into account that, from ancient Greece, idealism is taken as a philosophical current expressed as follows as a goodhora explains:

Indeed: all idealistic philosophers from Plato to Spengíer, (…), all idealistic schools from scholastic to the pantheist, have as the ultimate and supreme stage of their raciocinios the idea of something imaginary, extra-terrain, divine, unknowable, unknowable, that escapes our apprehension, our intelligence and sometimes they call God, motor idea, or imaginary nebula. 

Thus, in this way, idealism can be associated a little closer to the explanation and paradigm of the divine seen from philosophy, explaining the beliefs that somehow are not found verifiable or physical explanation, contrary to what theMaterialism wants to express. Well, understanding idealism, is seeing the study of thought, that is, philosophy, partly in an ancient and classic way of explaining things and phenomenology of facts and their way of capturing our reality in our reality.

Contrary to what idealism becomes;The materialistic current in philosophy, explains and gives a way of understanding reality objectively, where it is about highlighting the verification, and it is so that matter becomes fundamental and everything that can be touched, verified and observed in the spacephysical, leaving aside ideas and subjectivism as a basis for explanation of reality and environment with philosophy.

(…) Materialism consists, intuitive and simply, in not multiplying entities without need and, therefore, in rejecting the existence and need of any spiritualist entity generating a subject that, as a substance, is not created or destroyed, but it is transformed, then it will be eternal (remember that the Greeks were not able to conceive the absurd idea of creation from nothing), with which what we call born and perish will only be an acquisition of the first anda loss of form the second.

From materialism, as explained above, you can see the primary value in the matter and the physical value it represents, since the world can be explained from the verification moving away from entities and divinities that do not give reasonable and verifiable explanation. Thus, materialism comes as a strong epistemological base for the understanding and understanding of the facts and their relationship with matter.