"To Change The World" And "To Conscience"

Practice is the core and soul of Marx’s philosophy.It is the essence of Wang Yangming’s doctrine of conscience to insist on the unity of knowledge and action and to speak louder than words.In 1845,Marx hit the nail on the head by pointing out that it was not enough to explain the world,since he had criticized the philosophers of the past for only explaining it in different ways."the problem is to change the world," he said.when we look back on the development of Chinese thought in the past five hundred years,we cannot but trace it back to Wang Yangming and his theory of "Conscience".The doctrine of "Conscience" insists on the "unity of knowledge and action",emphasizing the realization in doing and the practice in matters to bring to conscience.From this point of view,both of them embody incisively and vividly the practical view of fearlessly exploring the truth and physically practicing the truth.In this paper,based on Marx’s practical philosophy as the research,in the perspective of traditional culture modernization transformation,try to use literature research,comparative research,the unity of history and logic method,explore Marx argues that explains the world to change the world and insist on hone that conscience to compare study of Wang Yangming,seeking to promote Sinicization of Marxism and modernity transformation of Chinese excellent traditional culture and innovative development path.This paper is divided into four parts.The first part through respectively to sort out Marx’s practical philosophy and Wang Yangming conscience background of times and social ideological and political theory,and analysis of the formation of the two men thought,connotation,characteristics and their specific text,it is concluded that Marx’s practical philosophy and Wang Yangming Conscience theory have practical characteristics,which is the basis of the two to compare,that led to the writing of later theory premise.The second part starts from the practical point of view,from the beginning of the mind is not changed,unswerving realm of life;The cognitive orientation of seeking truth from facts and the unity of knowledge and action;The three dimensions of practical path of practicing by body and practicing by practice concretely illustrate the consistency of Marx and Wang Yangming in the aspects of the establishment of life goals,the setting of cognitive orientation and the method of achieving goals.The third part discusses the difference between Marx and Wang Yangming’s "explaining the world so as to change the world" and the inner essence of their thoughts about the goal of "tempering things to conscience".It is concluded that Wang Yangming’s doctrine of conscience affirms the abstract noumenon--the metaphysical thought of "Conscience".In essence,it is just a return to traditional Confucianism and does not go beyond the scope of traditional ontological philosophical thinking mode.Marx’s practical philosophy is the post-metaphysics which negates the abstract noumenon--"absolute idea" as its basic characteristic,and realizes the radical break and transcendence of the traditional western ontological way of thinking,and its fundamental goal is to realize the freedom and liberation of human beings.The fourth part is on the basis of the comparison above to conclude that to achieve the integration and development of the two,the Marxist philosophy of practice should be rooted in the reality of China,deeply into the fertile soil of China’s traditional fine culture to draw nourishment.On the other hand,the traditional Chinese concept of knowledge and practice should be developed and transformed into the content of socialist ideology,and play its due role in the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics,the modernization of national governance system and the improvement of governance capacity.