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The Evolution Of Marxism Human And Nature Thought Under The Context Of Modern Science And Technology

Posted on:2012-01-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2210330338473146Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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Scientific and technological is an important driving force for the progress of human society. While scientific and technological is changing the mode of production of human society, it is also changing the relationship between man and nature. Before the revolution of modern technology, scientific and technological progress developed slowly, the relationship between man and nature basically remained at a relatively stable and harmonious state. However, the modern technological revolution has effectively promoted the capitalist machine industry and the development of socialized mass production, the influence of which has covered all areas of human society, showing the great promoting power to the human's social development. At the same time, due to the alienation of technology and applications, the relationship between man and nature has also transformed from "coordination" in the past to "confrontation" now, which has brought a series of negative effects.Marx and Engels began to pay attention to the relationship between man and nature very early. Focused on the abuse of technology for the capitalist society on many ecological and environmental problems, they had made many classic statements. They believed that man and nature were inherently identity, but should not be a conquest and predatory relationship; Human beings should respect the laws of nature while make use of it, and in this way, the relationship between man and nature will keep reconciliatory.Born and grown up from the revolutionary war, Mao Zedong was used to treating the relationship between man and nature on the basis of war. "To fight to the nature", "man will be the winner forever" and other statements like these are a certain limited on dealing with the relationship between man and nature. There is no doubt that he encouraged the new generation of Chinese should face the nature by positive attitude and just do it without scary, which is positive. If we can do like what he said, the nature will be more useful for human's better survival and development.According to the conversion of the worlds theme and the development of the modern technology, we are required to re-examine the relationship between man and nature. Focused on the special situation, Deng Xiaoping put forward a series of good ideas to improve and coordinate the relationship between man and nature, and he put them into practice. He even planted trees in person.Jiang Zemin recognized that coordination between man and nature was an important component of sustainable development. He suggested that we should solve environmental problems on the basis of the ideological, organizational aspects and other means. He also said that we should aware the importance of the ecological environment, team work and application of modern technology development. In addition, he also called for global co-operation to improve the level of the ecological environment.In the new century, mankind is facing some new challenges; especially the global ecological environment (including China) has not significantly improved, even getting worse instead. The relationship between man and nature is still tense. Hu Jintao's proposed a new relationship between man and nature patterns, which started from the people-oriented, harmonious coexistence, comprehensive development perspective and he also promoted an important theory of ecological civilization.Historical analysis, comparative study, induction, deduction and other methods are used in this paper to explore the theory about man and nature from Marx to Hu Jintao and other Marxist in the course of developing, by which she fully tapped the laws of evolution and its intrinsic value. It has an important reference and guidance on how to deal with the relationship between man and nature for the contemporary people, and it is one of the innovations of this paper.However, due to various reasons, especially the limitation of my knowledge, the paper also has some deficiencies. For example:(1)On the relationship between man and nature, what forced the conversion caused from people-centered in the past to both man and nature equal at present? (2) In the current, the reality is human deprived natural, so how to change people's behavior in ideological, legal, institutional and other aspects to make human being treat the nature friendly,so that man and nature can live in harmony? These will be my future research directions and I will target my efforts on them to get more and better results.
Keywords/Search Tags:man and nature, sustainable development, technology and society
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