Marx's texts belong in the tradition because they are in asking the questions about a just social and political organization, the question of is there a pattern to history that…
Philosophy thus may definitely presuppose a familiarity with its objects indeed it must do so as well as an interest in them from the outset, if only because chronologically speaking consciousness produces for itself representations of objects prior to generating concepts of them. What is more, only by passing through the process of representing and by turning towards it, does thinking spirit progress to knowing by way of thinking [denkendes Erkennen] and to comprehending [Begreif/m].
"Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it." (S.Th. I, q. 1, a. 8, ad 2)