Marx: Epicurean Reader

Abstract

From the doctoral work that Marx writes to gain such title, the author presents a little known aspect of Marx's work. The author argues that the reading of the Lectures on the history of Phílosophy of Hegel reveal an awful rejection of stoicism and epicureans. In Hegel's perspective, those systems uphold an abstract and arbitrary ideal against the real. On the contrary for Marx, Real is what is arbitrary and abstract; not the ideal as for Hegel's Epicure. That is why Hegel asks if it is not the self-consciousness which founds the world. Young Hegelians and particulary in Marx are conscious. at least momentarily. that epicurean materialism can answer their questions in respect to their philosophical and historical moment.