Central to his studies were the writings of Aristotle, Benedict de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and especially Gottfried Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In Berlin he joined the "Doctorklub," a group of students interested in philosophy, which also included Bruno Bauer and Karl Friedrich Köppen. This club, which centered around Arnold Ruge and his journal, the
Hallischen Jahrbücher (Halle Year-books), formed the heart of the Young Hegelians, the leading philosophical and political avant-garde movement of the day. Engels occasionally attended the meetings, but without meeting Marx. On 15 April 1841 Marx received his doctorate from the University of Jena on completing his dissertation, "Differenz der demokritischen und epikureischen Naturphilosophie" (Difference between the Philosophies of Nature of Democritus and Epicurus). At this early point in Marx's career the young communist Moses Hess wrote enthusiastically in a letter about the "einzig lebende Philosph" (only living philosopher): "Dr. Marx, so heißt mein Abgott, ist noch ein ganz junger Mann (etwa 24 Jahre höchstens alt), der der mittelalterlichen Religion und Politik den letzten Stoß versetzen wird; er verbindet mit dem tiefsten philosophischen Ernst den schneidendsten Witz; denk Dir Rousseau, Voltaire, Holbach, Lessing, Heine und Hegel in einer Person vereinigt, ich sage vereinigt, nicht zusammengeschmissen--so hast Du Dr.
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