Introduction “It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being‚ but‚ on the contrary‚ their social being that determines their consciousness” – Karl Marx The above notion by Karl Marx is the base of all his succeeding works; it is Marx’s concept of Man and how he critiqued the existing dominant ideology of German thought‚ and relates his argument to societal change and history – specifically the relations of production. In order to explain what Marx meant by the proposed notion
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Consciousness refers to your individual awareness of your unique thoughts‚ memories‚ feelings‚ sensations and environment. Your conscious experiences are constantly shifting and changing. Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It has been defined as: sentience‚ awareness‚ subjectivity‚ the ability to experience or to feel‚ wakefulness‚ having a sense of selfhood‚ and the executive control system of the mind. Despite the difficulty
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Chapter 1: Consciousness What is consciousness?: • The awareness of our internal and external environments is an ever-changing array of thoughts‚ feelings and sensations known as consciousness. • Your consciousness consists of all the thoughts‚ feelings and memories you are aware of at any given moment. It is easy to manipulate. • Consciousness is personal because it consists of your understanding of the world around you. • Consciousness is selective because you pay attention to something’s
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Consciousness Consciousness can be defined as awareness of the outside world and of one’s own thoughts‚ feelings‚ perceptions and other mental processes. A person’s consciousness state is constantly changing. When the changes are particularly noticeable‚ they are called altered states of consciousness. Examples of altered states include sleep‚ hypnosis‚ meditation and some drug-induced conditions. Sleep is an active and complex state. Differing levels of consciousness are described as variations
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Consciousness Odds are that you have‚ at one point or another‚ experienced oppression. Odds are also that you have been the oppressor at times‚ whether you’ve realized it or not. Pedagogy of the oppressed by Paulo Freire‚ does a clever and fantastic way of explaining how we’ve come to the duality of being both the oppressed and oppressor and how we can break away from it‚ as humanly as possible. In the attempt to break way from what we’ve been constructed to be‚ one most be conscious. Conscious
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Consciousness Physical….Or Not???? The statements “I have a guilty conscious” and “My conscious eating me alive” are phrases that have been giving physical meaning by everyday people. What has not been given merit is the imaginable state of consciousness or ones conscious. Are the statements true or just simply a saying with no meaning? For starters consciousness is a mystical network. It has several different extraordinary characters. One David Chalmers says it has a “unified and a differentiated
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Individual vs. Social Consciousness in Hobbes‚ Madison‚ Hegel‚ and Marx Hobbes and Madison derive their concept of politics in the liberal tradition of individualism‚ sketching out an ahistorical notion of human nature. By contrast‚ Hegel and Marx view the political as a social construction understood as dialectic. From this dialectic arises a progressive self consciousness. This is a historical process. Hobbes approach towards the nature of man is viewed from a mechanistic and ontological perspective:
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working‚ as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law‚ doctors‚ religion‚ statistical tables‚ politics‚ and the beadle. ~ Marx‚ Wages of Labour (1844)” Sociology is a scientific endeavor .Studying human beings ‚ however is different from observing events in the physical world . Through our own actions we are constantly creating and recreating the societies in which we live . Society is not a static or unchanging entity ; social institutions are continuously being reproduced over
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Consciousness is the state of awareness‚ reflecting on the environment of external and internal stimuli. The sensory system operates by sending information from the right side of the body‚ to the cerebral left hemisphere of the brain for processing and vice versa. The corpus collosum is an enormous collection of neural fibers that connect the two halves of the brain. In “healthy” individuals the two hemispheres work together as one to compliment our overall consciousness. The right hemisphere specialises
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Q.3 Lukes’ third dimension of power is controversial because it entails the use of the concept of ‘false consciousness’. Using examples of your own‚ defend and / or critique the hypothesis that there is such thing as ‘false consciousness’. Power has always been a contested and controversial topic and is one of the most central concepts in the social sciences. With regard to the concept of power‚ the issue of domination and what domination is has also been widely debated. While most people would
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