Ana Flores
HUM-101
September 2014

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there were several historical and cultural events that shaped human thought. Marx, Darwin, Freud, Nietzche, and Dostoevsky had to do with some of the events that shaped human thoughts in many ways. Marx published “The Communist Manifesto” this introduced his concept of socialism as a natural result of inherited conflict due to capitalism. Marx’s movement was known as the Young Hegelians, in which they criticized the political and cultural establishments during his time. Marx was constantly moving from country to country in Europe due to his writing. He believed that the he would completely remove capitalism for good by making the workingmen the ruling class of the world.
In the twentieth century Darwin’s movement was associated with a theory of evolution. His theory was mainly focused on natural selection. Darwin believed that the biological laws affect all living beings and that this lead to a struggle for survival, with particular physical and mental capacities interfering with advantages to some individuals and not others. Darwin’s movement influenced scientifically but in a social aspect as well. Freud was a highly original thinker and was influenced by many things in his life. He lived in a different time from Darwin but believed his scientific theory could have been better. His thought had a strong impact on psychology. He wrote about sex, dreams, religion and many more subjects. Changed the way human beings thought in vast ways. Science was view differently and the movement in psychoanalyst was well known.
Nietzche influences many major thinkers of the twentieth century. His ideas on individuality, morality, and the meaning of existence influenced people in the way they thought. He believed that an individual who strives to exist beyond conventional categories of good and evil master and slave. His successful way of moving people with his thoughts made history. Nietzche western Christianity has a different thought in Dostoevsky point of view. Dostoevsky is one of Russians greatest writers. He had a mission and his mission was to change the way people thought religiously. He uses a critique on his Russian orthodox on his Christianity thought. His nobles were about many aspects of his life including health, life and religion conversions. His view on life and how he published them made philosophical changes in peoples social view.