> huh. i was taught that his hegel was filtered through aristotle. hence, the heavy reliance on aristotle's physus to understand causation in history.
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This aspect of Aristotle is also in Hegel.
What Hegel adds, and Marx sublates, is the idea of the "in itself" of human being - "freedom" - becoming "for itself" through the dialectic of negativity elaborated as estrangement within the labour process, a key aspect of this dialectic being the key role assigned to the "passions."
On the other hand, Marx's sublation of Hegel's idea of the ethical universal as "mutual recognition" (which also sublates Aristotle) adds aspects of Aristotle on "friendship" missing from Hegel.
Since it's a "sublation" it has features found in neither Aristotle or Hegel, features such as the following:
"The direct, natural, and necessary relation of person to person is the relation of man to woman. In this natural species-relationship man’s relation to nature is immediately his relation to man, just as his relation to man is immediately his relation to nature – his own natural destination. In this relationship, therefore, is sensuously manifested, reduced to an observable fact, the extent to which the human essence has become nature to man, or to which nature to him has become the human essence of man. From this relationship one can therefore judge man’s whole level of development. From the character of this relationship follows how much man as a species-being, as man, has come to be himself and to comprehend himself; the relation of man to woman is the most natural relation of human being to human being. It therefore reveals the extent to which man’s natural behaviour has become human, or the extent to which the human essence in him has become a natural essence – the extent to which his human nature has come to be natural to him. This relationship also reveals the extent to which man’s need has become a human need; the extent to which, therefore, the other person as a person has become for him a need – the extent to which he in his individual existence is at the same time a social being." http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm
It also rejects Aristotle's idea of natural slaves.
Ted