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Consciousness
Jacobins

AUTHOR

G. W. F. Hegel

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The Philosophy of History

The History of the World in general [is] the Consciousness of Freedom, and the phases which this consciousness assumes in developing itself.
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Aspect: 01. Purpose of history
Jacobins

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G. W. F. Hegel

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Lectures On The Philosophy (...)

For the History of the World occupies a higher ground than that on which morality has properly its position.
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Aspect: 01. Purpose of history
Jacobins

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G. W. F. Hegel

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Lectures On The Philosophy (...)

For Law is the objectivity of Spirit; volition in its true form. Only that will which obeys law, is free; for it obeys itself - it is independent and so free.
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Aspect: 01. Purpose of history
Jacobins

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G. W. F. Hegel

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Lectures On The Philosophy (...)

moral claims that are irrelevant, must not be brought into collision with world-historical deeds and their accomplishment.
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Jacobins

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G. W. F. Hegel

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The Philosophy of Right

State in and by itself is the ethical whole, the actualization of freedom.
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Aspect: 01. Purpose of history
Marxists

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Karl Marx

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Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (...)

All history is the history of preparing and developing “man” to become the object of sensuous consciousness, and turning the requirements of “man as man” into his needs.
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Marxists

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Karl Marx

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Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (...)

History itself is a real part of natural history - of nature developing into man.
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Aspect: 01. Purpose of history
Marxists

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Karl Marx

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Critique of German Ideology

Consciousness is, therefore, from the very beginning a social product, and remains so as long as men exist at all.
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Aspect: 01. Purpose of history
Cultural

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Georg Lukacs

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History & Class Consciousness

The essence of scientific Marxism consists, then, in the realisation that the real motor forces of history are independent of man’s (psychological) consciousness of them.
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Cultural

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Antonio Gramsci

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Man is above all else mind, consciousness - that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.
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Cultural

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Georg Lukacs

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History & Class Consciousness

Marx urged us to understand ‘the sensuous world’, the object, reality, as human sensuous activity. This means that man must become conscious of himself as a social being, as simultaneously the subject and object of the socio-historical process.
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Cultural

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Georg Lukacs

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History & Class Consciousness

the notion of consciousness as ‘practical critical activity’ with the task of ‘changing the world’.
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Critical

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Herbert Marcuse

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A Critique of Pure (...)

Freedom is liberation, a specific historical process in theory and practice, and as such it has its right and wrong, its truth and falsehood.
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Aspect: 01. Purpose of history
Feminism

AUTHOR

Kate Millet

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Sexual Politics

The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which while, it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well. And here it would seem that the most profound changes implied are ones accomplished by human growth and true re-education, rather than those arrived at through the theatrics of armed struggle - even should the latter be come (...)
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Aspect: 01. Purpose of history
Education

AUTHOR

Chris Van Gorder

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Paulo Freire’S Pedagogy For (...)

Conscientizacao is a Portuguese term that speaks of the way that an individual, through education, comes to learn of the social, economic and political contradictions of the world and to address those elements with either passive acceptance or active resistance. Freire saw conscientization as a social and collective process and not merely an individual exercise.
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Education

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Paulo Freire

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Politics of Education

All of us are involved in a permanent process of conscientization, as thinking beings in a dialectical relation with an objective reality upon which we act. What varies in time and space are the contents, methods, and objectives of conscientization.
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Education

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Paulo Freire

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Politics of Education

Conscientization thus involves a constant clarification of what remains hidden within us while we move about in the world.
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Education

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Paulo Freire

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Politics of Education

Conscientization is viable only because men's consciousness, although conditioned, can recognize that it is conditioned. This “critical“ dimension of consciousness accounts for the goals men assign to their transforming acts upon the world. Because they are able to have goals, men alone are capable of entertaining the result of their action even before initiating the proposed action. They are beings who project
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Marxists

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Karl Marx

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Critique of German Ideology

Modern universal intercourse can be controlled by individuals, therefore, only when controlled by all.
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Aspect: 02. Class Awareness (Awareness of stratified society)
Marxists

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Karl Marx

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A Contribution To The (...)

The rational consideration of a topic, the consciousness of the Idea, is concrete and to that extent coincides with a genuine practical sense. The concrete state is the whole, articulated into its particular groups. The member of a state is a member of such a group, i.e., of a social class, and it is only as characterised in this objective way that he comes under consideration when we are dealing with the state.
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Cultural

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Mao Zedong

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On The Correct Handling (...)

Not to have a correct political orientation is like not having a soul.
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Aspect: 02. Class Awareness (Awareness of stratified society)
Marxists

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Karl Marx

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Critique of German Ideology

The separate individuals form a class only insofar as they have to carry on a common battle against another class; otherwise they are on hostile terms with each other as competitors.
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Aspect: 03. Oppression awareness
Critical

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Herbert Marcuse

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One-Dimensional Man

All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own.
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Critical

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Herbert Marcuse

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An Essay On Liberation

To be sure, even the most advanced capitalist welfare state remains a class society and therefore a state of conflicting class interests.
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Aspect: 03. Oppression awareness
Feminism

AUTHOR

Germaine Greer

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The Female Eunuch

Women represent the most oppressed class of life-contracted unpaid workers, for whom slaves is not too melodramatic a description. They are the only true proletariat left, and they are by a tiny margin the majority of the population, so what’s stopping them? The answer must be made, that their very oppression stands in the way of their combining to form any kind of solid group which can challenge the masters. But man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining (...)
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Race (CRT)

AUTHOR

Richard Delgado

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Critical Race Theory An (...)

Which master should the lawyer serve? Do similar conflicts arise in the political realm? For example, does a black president or senator, by the very nature of his or her role, have to downplay his or her blackness in fulfilling obligations to the country as a whole?
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Aspect: 03. Oppression awareness
Education

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Paulo Freire

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Pedagogy of The Oppressed

The struggle begins with men's recognition that they have been destroyed. Propaganda, management, manipulation - all arms of domination - cannot be the instruments of their rehumanization. The only effective instrument is a humanizing pedagogy in which the revolutionary leadership establishes a permanent relationship of dialogue with the oppressed. In a humanizing pedagogy the method ceases to be an instrument by which the teachers (in this instance, the revolutionary leadership) can manipulate the students (in this instance, the oppressed), because it expresses the consciousness of the students themselves.
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Aspect: 03. Oppression awareness
Jacobins

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G. W. F. Hegel

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The Phenomenology of Spirit

The nature of humanity is to drive men to agreement with one another, and humanity existence lies only in the commonality of consciousness that has been brought about.
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Aspect: 04. Adopting a holistic awareness
Jacobins

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G. W. F. Hegel

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Elements of The Philosophy (...)

Unification pure and simple is the true content and aim of the individual, and the individual’s destiny is the living of a universal life.
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Aspect: 04. Adopting a holistic awareness
Jacobins

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G. W. F. Hegel

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General Introduction To The (...)

The morality of the individual, then, consists in his fulfilling the duties of his social position.
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Aspect: 04. Adopting a holistic awareness