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Al asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

Alienation?

Marx, Schopenhauer, Heidegger and others spoke of Alienation. What does this mean in today's society? What are some actual examples?

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  • -.-
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    Generally, alienation is the product of world-bound people being extracted from the world. The world is that backdrop where we make objects, engage with other people. It's an empty, creative, unconscious space, which attacks the person under alienation.

    So, when human purpose is reduced to instrumentality-- you are alienated from the world. The person used to be part of the world, a co-creator alongside it. But when people are treated like tools, the world acts against people -- no person dictates, the machine compels universally. And if human nature is to be world-bound, then everyone suffers.

    An example today would be our state of specialization. I doubt most have much understanding of the technical ramifications of modern politics, and yet we have to vote for representatives that will make important decisions, so we must follow which advertisements appeal to our sensibilities the most. And this is a poor and uncritical state of affairs.

  • 1 decade ago

    There are all kinds of alienation in our society. Mostly we are alienated from one another through technology.

  • 1 decade ago

    We are loosing all harmony and becoming strangers within ourselves because of the social patterns and the antagonism that have been imposed on us by the rulers of society

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    alienation is a matter of time and space and who told the story? and how big the cell was when you disagreed?

    or dissapeared!

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