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   Teleology

   In bioethics, teleology is used to describe the utilitarian view that an action's ethics is determined by its good or bad consequences. ... In the various neo-Hegelian schools - proposing a history of our species some consider to be at variance with Darwin, with the dialectical materialism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and with what is now called analytic philosophy — the point of departure is not so much formal logic and scientific fact but 'identity'.
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   Influences on Karl Marx

   Hegel's dialectical method, which was taken up by Karl Marx, was an extension of the method of reasoning by “antinomies” that Kant used.
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   Marxist philosophy

   Teleology, according to Hegel, is not opposed to the efficient causation provided by passion; on the contrary, the latter is the vehicle realizing the former. ... Karl Marx · Friedrich Engels
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   Essence

   Karl Marx was, along with Kierkegaard, a follower of Hegel's, and he, too, developed a philosophy in reaction to his master. In his early work, Marx used Aristotalian style teleology and derived a concept of humanity's essential nature.
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   Glossary of philosophical isms

   Marxism – a set of political positions and movements based on the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ... Teleology asserts that there are.
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   Frankfurt School

   Their critique of technology, totality, teleology and (occasionally) civilization is an influence on anarcho-primitivism. ... Karl Popper believed that the school did not live up Marx's promise of a better future:
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   Human nature

   Teleology holds that there is inherent purpose to human existence. ... Karl Marx
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   Immanuel Kant

   Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology ... Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Peirce, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Sartre, Cassirer, Habermas, Rawls, Chomsky, Nozick, Karl Popper, Kierkegaard, Jung, Searle, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, Giovanni Gentile, Karl Jaspers, Hayek, Bergson, Ørsted, A.J. Ayer, Emerson, Weininger, P.F. Strawson, John McDowell
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   Parametric determinism

   In this sense, Karl Marx had written: ... The theory of historicism according to which the historical process as a whole has an overall purpose or teleology (or "grand design") is rejected.
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    Meme

    In terms of genetics, taking as its sole purpose Darwin's proposal of survival as the only observable final good, one might apply teleology as an applicable description of the described process of evolution - organism C follows B follows A, ad infinitum, resulting in the continued survival of species or of species derived thereof, though without ascribing any intelligent purpose or direction (apart from that of artificial selection). ... These people include Zoroaster, Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Benjamin Franklin and Karl Popper.

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• Glossary of philosophical isms,
• Frankfurt School,
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