Karl Marx (2)

G. Critique of Language
1. Traditional View of Language: the house of being/manifests being; close link between being and language; enables us to see being
2. Nietzsche’s say:
a. Not so much a revelation but an interpretation of reality
b. Language is a mobile army of metaphor
c. Depending on the language, you see a different aspect of reality
i. certain tribe counts 1, 2, many
ii. Filipino colors vs. American colors

F. Will to Power
- After Nietzsche’s death, his writings were controlled by Q. Elizabeth (his sister). Her husband was a Nazi so, she kinda slanted towards will to power
1. Will to Dominate
a. The only writing presented by Elizabeth
b. Everything has a tendency to dominate (tree’s roots, teachers, love… etc)
c. weakness
2. Will to Nothingness
a. a tendency to destroy either one’s self or others
b. psychological phenomenon
3.Will to Self determination
a. The capacity to dominate oneself (Ubermensch)
b. But in failure to succeed, one might revert to dominating others
c. Real strength

G. Aesthetc Phenomenon
- comes from the Birth of Tragedy book
1. Sense of the Beautiful
a. Redemption: seeking for the element of beauty
b. Seek out by artists
c. Our ultimate purpose in life: make our life a thing of beauty
d. “If I were to believe in God, it would be a dancing God>”
2. What is the Beautiful?
a. not just spiritual but embodied
b. The language for beauty has to be creative, poetic, enhances life

III. Karl Marx
(Critique Aspect and Prophetic Aspect: tied up to each other)

Critique Aspect
- an immanent critique: not to impose my norms on somebody but to try simply to understand
- awareness of the internal contradiction between how the society thinks itself too be and how the reality is
- grips every member of society

A. Religious Critique (check notes)
B. Political Critique (check fuckin notes)
C. Economic Critique
1. View of money:
a. everything is weighed according to monetary standards (What’s your salary? Networth?…etc)
b. laws of economics: allows men to die out so that money can grow back: law of the Jungle!
2. View of work
a. Anything has value to the extend that it was worked on
b. Money is just paper and coin: the main value is work and the worker
c.

Prophetic Aspect