Philosophy is a broad range of exercises in thought with the ultimate goal of to unmasking parts of the world. As Marx put it, "It is the immediate task of philosophy, which is in the service of history, to unmask self-estrangement in its unholy forms once the holy form of human self-estrangement has been unmasked".[1]
Hegel described philosophy as the science that "is the unity of art and religion" and as "cognition of the necessity in the content of the absolute picture-idea".[2]
Ancient philosophy
Greek philosophy
Plato
Stoicism
Chinese philosophy
Confucius
Bourgeois philosophy
British Philosophy
German Philosophy
Hegel
Proletarian philosophy
Marx and Engels
Marx once stated that "As philosophy finds its material weapon in the proletariat, so the proletariat finds its spiritual weapon in philosophy."[1] It was Marx who first brought philosophy from the bourgeois world into the proletarian side, and fashioned it into a weapon for the proletariat.
Of philosophy Marx states that "You cannot abolish philosophy without making it a reality"[1], and perhaps more famously that "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. "[3], marking the distinction between his and bourgeois philosophy.