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link TBA URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.philosophy.rutgers.edu/events/department-calendar/icalrepeat.de tail/2021/04/08/610/-/spring-2021-dept-colloquium-prof-vanessa-wills-george -washington-university?tmpl=component DESCRIPTION:Spring 2021 Dept Colloquium-Prof. Vanessa Wills (George Washington Universi ty)Thursday, April 08, 2021, 03:00pm - 05:00pm\nTitle: "'Heaven is a Place on Earth': Marxism and the Abolition of Morality"\nAbstract: In The Communi st Manifesto, Marx imagines a bourgeois interlocutor who poses a series of challenges to the communists. That interlocutor charges, “Communism abolish es eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.” (The German word translated as “abolish” here is “abschaffen” which connotes a more complete doing-away-with than the Ge rman word “aufheben” which is also sometimes translated as “to abolish.”)\n Marx responds that indeed Communism does abolish morality, and that as mora lity emerges from the fact of exploitation, it is only fitting that it shou ld “vanish” with the “total disappearance of class antagonisms.” However, M arx's criticisms of capitalism themselves often seem to have an ethical bas is. 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Thursday, April 08, 2021, 03:00pm - 05:00pm
Title: "'Heaven is a Place on Earth': Marxism and the Abolition of Morality"
< strong>Abstract: In The Communist Manifesto, Marx imag ines a bourgeois interlocutor who poses a series of challenges to the commu nists. That interlocutor charges, “Communism abolishes eternal truths, it a bolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experi ence.” (The German word translated as “abolish” here is “abschaffen” which connotes a more complete doing-away-with than the German word “aufheben” wh ich is also sometimes translated as “to abolish.”)
Marx responds that ind eed Communism does abolish morality, and that as morality emerges fr om the fact of exploitation, it is only fitting that it should “vanish” wit h the “total disappearance of class antagonisms.” However, Marx's criticism s of capitalism themselves often seem to have an ethical basis. What could Marx mean by his claim that communism abolishes morality, and what does it imply for long-standing debates about the possibility for a distinctively M arxist ethics?
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