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a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as a society."Society Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary." Society Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary. Cambridge Dictionaries, n.d. Web. 12 Sept. 2016. A careful study of the Critique of German Ideology made it clear to me that society posses certain ingredients which makes it differ from other human forms of growth. In the article Hegel “substance ” and self-conscious made me understand that no matter how you feel and what you are going through one has to be able to stand without undermining what is going on around him he started his argument with religious conception where basically he dealt with the aspect of theology and …show more content…

“A Critique of The German Ideology.” A Critique of The German Ideology, PROGRESS PUBLISHERS, 1968, 1932. Hegelian in all his critics he has an idea of the religious history which composed of the elucidations of Christianity, he claims human interpretation of Christianity as compared to what the theologians say are different. “Substance” and Consciousness play a very important role in human life hence our imagination has a key role in our materialistic method. He was able to create different types of premises which can be verified in a purely empirical way . He said the first premise of all human history is, of course the existence of living individuals.The first fact to be established is how one can organize

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