Marx's Notion of Labor as a Representational Concretization of the Logico-Hegelian Notion of Social Being
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https://doi.org/10.36592/opiniaofilosofica.2025.v16.1180Keywords:
Marx's notion of labor., Hegel's notion of social being., Operation of representational concretization.Abstract
Initially, this article reviews the Hegelian notion of Syllogism, taken in its most general form, and explains the distinction between Passive syllogisms and Active syllogisms, a distinction that Hegel himself established, but did not emphasize. The article then shows that Active syllogisms constitute the operatory core of the Hegelian notion of Subjective idea. Next, the article examines in detail the Subjective idea of Social being, which Hegel established under the name Gender. Finally, the article introduces the notion of the operation of representational concretization of a Subjective idea and shows that the logical structure of the notion of Labor adopted by Marx in his writings on Political Economy can be seen as a particular representational concretization of the Idea of Social being.
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