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The opium of the people or opium of the masses (German: Opium des Volkes) is a dictum used in reference to religion, derived from a frequently paraphrased partial statement of German revolutionary and critic of political economy Karl Marx: "Religion is the opium of the people." In context, the statement is part of Marx's analysis that religion ...
19th-century German philosopher Karl Marx, the founder and primary theorist of Marxism, viewed religion as "the soul of soulless conditions" or the "opium of the people". According to Marx, religion in this world of exploitation is an expression of distress and at the same time it is also a protest against the real distress.
[25] Taking its name from Marx's Opium of the people statement about religion, the book claims to trace the roots and offshoots of Sabbatean, Frankist, and Illuminati groups and their interrelationships in regard to the origin of Marxist, Communist, and geopolitical and financial forces that have been aimed at destroying religion, particularly ...
It [religion] is the opium of the people. [ 22 ] Thus for Marx atheist philosophy liberated men and women from suppressing their innate potential as human beings, and allowed people to intellectually understand that they possess individual human agency , and thus are masters of their individual reality, because the earthly authority of ...
Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (/ ɑː ˈ r ɒ n /; French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ aʁɔ̃]; 14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century.
The opium was discovered in eight pottery containers found as part of a series of Late Bronze Ag burials. The surprising announcement raises a whole host of questions. How did the substance get there?
Overlapping consensus is a term coined by John Rawls [1] in A Theory of Justice and developed in Political Liberalism.The term overlapping consensus refers to how supporters of different comprehensive normative doctrines—that entail apparently inconsistent conceptions of justice—can agree on particular principles of justice that underwrite a political community's basic social institutions.
Primary goods are presented in the book A Theory of Justice (1971) written by the American philosopher John Rawls.In the first edition of the Theory of Justice, these goods are supposed to be desirable for every human being, just as they are also useful for them.