"Logic -- mind's coin of the realm, the speculative or mental value of man and nature -- its essence which has grown totally indifferent to all real determinateness, and hence unreal -- is alienated thinking, and therefore thinking which abstracts from nature and from real man: abstract thinking."
— Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
Author
Date
w. btw. April and August, 1844
Metaphor
"Logic -- mind's coin of the realm, the speculative or mental value of man and nature -- its essence which has grown totally indifferent to all real determinateness, and hence unreal -- is alienated thinking, and therefore thinking which abstracts from nature and from real man: abstract thinking."
Metaphor in Context
Logic -- mind's coin of the realm, the speculative or mental value of man and nature -- its essence which has grown totally indifferent to all real determinateness, and hence unreal -- is alienated thinking, and therefore thinking which abstracts from nature and from real man: abstract thinking.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" at www.marxists.org
Citation
Marx, Karl. Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Trans. Martin Mulligan, Marx-Engels Collected Works, Vol. 3. Progress Publishers: Moscow, 1959. Transcribed for marxists.org by Andy Blunden, 2000. <Link to www.marxists.org>
Date of Entry
07/28/2009
