Consciousness and Reality: A Comparative Study of the Philosophical Foundationsof Marx and Hegel
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This study offers a comparative analysis of the philosophical foundations of G. W. F. Hegel and Karl Marx with a focus on their respective conceptions of consciousness and reality. Drawing from classical texts and contemporary scholarship, it reconstructs Hegel’s dialectical idealism, which views reality as the unfolding of Absolute Spirit, and contrasts it with Marx’s materialist dialectics, which locates consciousness in socio-historical praxis. The analysis highlights Marx’s critique of Feuerbach’s abstract humanism and Stirner’s radical egoism, culminating in the notion of the “real individual” as historically situated and socially embedded. Through a layered examination of method, history, subjectivity, and community, the paper demonstrates how Marx inherits and subverts Hegel’s philosophical system, transforming it into a critical theory of liberation. This dialogue between idealism and materialism, abstract freedom and practical emancipation, remains vital for understanding contemporary structures of power, ideology, and agency.
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