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Paul Lafargue

Social and Philosophical Studies

(1906)

Translated by Charles H. Kerr.
Published by Charles H. Kerr & Company, Chicago 1918.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.


CAUSES OF BELIEF IN GOD

I. The Religious Bourgeoisie and the Irreligious Proletariat

II. Natural Origins of the Idea of God in the Savage

III. Economic Origins of the Belief in God of the Bourgeois

IV. Evolution of the Idea of God

V. Causes of the Irreligion of the Proletariat


THE ORIGIN OF ABSTRACT IDEAS

I. Contradictory Opinions Regarding the Origin of Abstract Ideas

II. Formation of the Instinct and of Abstract Ideas


THE ORIGIN OF THE IDEA OF JUSTICE

I. The Law of Retaliation – Retributive Justice

II. Distributive Justice


THE ORIGIN OF THE IDEA OF GOOD

I. Formation of the Heroic Ideal

II. Decomposition of the Heroic Ideal

III. The Bourgeois Moral Ideal

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