Zhang Dainian And Sinicization Of Marxist Philosophy

How to view and evaluate Marxist philosophy and how to organically combine Marxist philosophy research with China’s specific practical research,is foothold and growing point of China’s academic circles to promote the sinicization of Marxist philosophy.However,in many theoretical studies,people pay less attention to zhang Dainian’s thought contribution.As Chinese modern famous philosopher and philosophy,he began the exploration of sinicization of Marxist philosophy in the 1930s and continued this cultivation and creative work into the early of this century.If criticizing dogmatism and reflecting the old materialism are the theory background of Zhang Dainian’s promotion of the sinicization of Marxist philosophy,then Chinese traditional philosophy of "dual manifestation of ren and wisdom" concept,western philosophy of "resign name analysis"and Marxist philosophy of "change the world" principle are his thought foundation of understanding of the problem and responding the problem.From the perspective of cultivating cultural subjects to enhance national cohesion and create spiritual home to highlight socialist ideals,Zhang put forward the importance of rebuilding the philosophy of China,which opened the way for the sinicization of Marxist philosophy by promoting and complementing with Ai Siqi and other people.In the construction of Chinese Marxist philosophy,Zhang Dainian mainly made the following three tasks:First,in the "debate about materialist dialectics",he refuted Ye Qing’s "theory of philosophical elimination" and "the theory of philosophical obliteration",which clarified the theoretical nature of Marxist philosophy;The second is to take "object"as the basic category,and "the double meaning of objects","interpretation the phenomenon of life through the concept of substance","Three criteria for inspecting truth" as the core concept,and "life and fulfillment,throughout the whole process of knowledge" as the fundamental and essential principles.A conceptual framework for comprehending "new materialism" as methodology is preliminarily constructed,thus reaffirms the materialist foundation of Marxist philosophy;Thirdly,starting from the relationship issues between the objective world and the ideal of life,he briefly put forward a philosophy of practice of group of standard,thus expanding the idealistic dimension of Marx’s Philosophy,which are established in interactive motion of "triumph over nature","reform on society" and"purification of morality".As for Zhang Dainian,Marxist philosophy is attached to practice as a theory.But it obeys the same law as practice within its own domain of discourse,as the most throughout theories.Therefore,the starting point of Marxist philosophy is the object that combined substance and principle while its foothold is the people who embrace reality and ideality.The methodology and the theory of life is not the departmental philosophy of Marxist philosophy,but it is the Marxist philosophy itself ultimately.Therefore,the theoretical nature and theoretical connotation of Marxist philosophy should be comprehended from the holistic horizon of "the pursuit of truth is the pursuit of moral ideals".Zhang Dainian has formulated following two countermeasures,in exploring the modernization of Chinese traditional philosophy:firstly,in virtue of the approach of principle and specialization,we should do our utmost endeavour to try to make the thought of the nation "separate from the mysterious and chaos".Secondly,with the "return to the original and exploiting new road" been replaced by the "comprehensive innovation",we should try our utmost endeavour to transform the traditional ideology of the nation in the construction of new culture.As for the former,Zhang Dainian used his comprehending of Ideological characteristics of Marxist philosophy to discipline ideological characteristics of Chinese classical philosophy,and he stipulated the problem domain of the Marxist philosophy with his understanding of the problem domain of Chinese classical phi lo sophy.Thro ugh the reorganization of traditional ideology’s conceptualization,proposition and up to principle,the tradition of benevolence and wisdom of Chinese classical philosophy will developed the characteristics of understandable and share-able;As for the latter,Zhang Dainian has not only objected to the restoration of the old thoughts in the form of reincarnation,moreover,he believes that it is not enough to impulse the modern transformation of philosophical tradition by theoretical research of mindfulness alone.Thus,he proposed a new idea that we should implement the criticism and inheritance of traditional thoughts in the comprehensive creation of philosophy,implement the comprehensive creation of philosophy in the comprehensive innovation of culture,implement the comprehensive innovation of culture in the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.In this way,Zhang Dainian defended the legitimacy of Chinese philosophy and found a new approach for the development of Chinese philosophy.It is not hard to find that,from "God-man new theory" to "Theory of integrative innovation",from The Outline of Chinese Philosophy to Chinese philosophy history methodology,Zhang shows the inherent relation between the "link inevitability" of concept innovation and the "total freedom" of national rejuvenation and cultural regeneration in his careful thinking logic.In his view,Marxist philosophy not only needs to combine with the political reality and economic reality of this nation,but also should be combined with the actual practice of our tradition thought.The latter is expanding beyond China’s experience and in China’s experience.It is not only the logic of the interaction of ideas,but also the logic of the mutual release of civilization,and the logic of the free and mutual liberation of mankind.So,Zhang’s task for himself is:combining the philosophy of Marxist,China and West,and then showing a kind of modern ideology that has the foundation of history and culture in the sense of establishing ideal values.Therefore,Zhang’s philosophy should be included as a typical microcosmic case in the sinicization of Marxist philosophy.His thoughts on persisting Marxist philosophy and developing Marxist philosophy deserve our serious conclusion.