On Marx’s "Essence Of Man" To Feuerbach Transcendence Of Thought

The issue of “essence of man”has always been the focus of research by scholars from all over the world.During the formation and development of Marx’s human nature thought,Feuerbach’s research on essence of man laid an important theoretical foundation for it.The article will discuss how Marx’s human essence thinking inherits and surpasses Feuerbach’s essence thinking,takes the idea of human essence as the breakthrough point,and starts from the works of Marx and Feuerbach to find out the two people’s essence thoughts on human beings association.Feuerbac’s early thought experienced a turn to speculative idealistic philosophy against theology,and humanistic materialism against religious theology and speculative philosophy.Feuerbach’s essential ideas were formed primarily through criticism of feudal despotism and theological domination,the absorption of the spirit of the Lutheran Reformation,and the rejection of Hegel’s speculative philosophy.Its main contents include: the natural essence of man,the essence of man,the alienation of religion as the essence of man,and the essence of man’s reason,will,and love.Marx affirmed and criticized feuerbach’s essential ideas,first of all,Marx affirmed Feuerbach’s realistic concept of man,his materialistic standpoint,the objectivity of human essence,and the restoration of essence of man from religious theology.However,for some of Feuerbach’s ideas,Marx held a critical attitude: Marx criticized Feuerbach for explaining the essence of man from the perspective of perceptual intuition,criticized Feuerbach’s abstract concept of quasi-essential nature,criticized Feuerbach’s alienating idea that God is the essence of man,and restored the essence of man with a religion of love,essence of man.Although Feuerbach had a certain influence on Marx’s essential ideas of man,Marx had his own views on the essence of man.When Marx and Feuerbach jointly believed that the proof of God and the existence of God is the proof and affirmation of the essence of man,their understanding of the essence of man is different,and the essence of man lies in Feuerbach It seems to be the essence of reason,will and love,which means that the essence of man as understood by Feuerbach is actually the essence of the species.Unlike him,Marx understood the essence of man as his “self-consciousness”.Proceeding from the subjectivity of man,Marx believed that the essence of man is human needs,the essence of man is labor,and the essence of man is the sum of all social relations,and explored the essence of man with the practice of materialist thought and the method of materialistic dialectics.Finally,after constantly thinking about Feuerbach’s philosophical thought and critically inheriting his essential ideas of man,Marx finally surpassed Feuerbach’s abstract idea of man’s essential thought with his realistic,active idea of man.Marx surpassed Feuerbach’s “abstract man”with his “real man”,the abstract concept of “quasi-essence” with the concept of“labor”,the “abstraction inherent in the individual” with “the sum of all social relations”,and the “religion of love” with communism.The essential idea of Marx plays a unique charm with its scientific and theoretical nature,and has very important theoretical and practical value.