Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET 2023 Political Science
Who has stated that the idea of 'praxis' is most clearly developed in a short eleven paragraphs or theses that Marx had written to himself in 1845?
AH. J. Laski
BB. R. Nelson ✓ Correct
CJ. Wood
DR. E. Lenser
Correct answer: (B) B. R. Nelson — The remark that praxis is most clearly developed in the eleven short theses of 1845 is attributed to B. R. Nelson.
Explanation
★The remark that praxis is most clearly developed in the eleven short theses of 1845 is attributed to B. R. Nelson.
★The eleven theses are Marx's Theses on Feuerbach, written in 1845 and first published by Engels in 1888.
★The eleventh thesis is the famous line that the philosophers have only interpreted the world, while the point is to change it.
★Praxis, for Marx, is conscious, practical, world-transforming human activity that unites theory and action.
★It marks his break with the merely contemplative materialism of Feuerbach.
★The Theses on Feuerbach are regarded as the seed of Marx's mature philosophy of practice.
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