Doctoral Dissertation of Karl Marx (original) (raw)
Karl Marx Internet Archive
The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature.
with an Appendix
Written: March 1841;
First Published: 1902;
Source: Marx-Engels Collected Works Volume 1;
Publisher: Progress Publishers;
Transcription/Markup: Andy Blunden;
Online Version: Brian Baggins (marxists.org) 2000.
Contents: According to Marx's original Table of Contents
Part One: Difference between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature in General
I. The Subject of the Treatise
II. Opinions on the Relationship Between Democritean and Epicurean Physics
III. Difficulties Concerning the Identity of the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature
IV. General Difference in Principle Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature
V. Result
Part Two: Difference between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature in detail
Chapter One: The Declination of the Atom from the Straight Line
Chapter Two: The Qualities of the Atom
Chapter Three: Atomoi archai and atoma stoicheia
Chapter Four: Time
Chapter Five: The Meteors
Appendix Critique of Plutarch's Polemic against the Theology of Epicurus
II. Individual Immortality
1. On Religious Feudalism. The Hell of the Populace
2. The Longing of the Multitude
3. The Pride of the Elected
Notes
I. On Religious Feudalism. The Hell of the Populace
II. Opinions on the Relationship between Democritean and Epicurean Physics (notes)
III. Difficulties concerning the Ientity of the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature. (notes)
IV. General Difference in Principle between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature
Preliminary Note
I. The Relationship of Man to God
1. Fear and the Being Beyond
2. Cult and the Individual
3. Providence and the Degraded God
Draft of new Preface
Marx's Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy
Editors' Footnotes and Preface, Image of Draft Preface.
