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A Study Of Li Dazhao 's Ethical Thoughts

Posted on:2016-05-29Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X C XieFull Text:PDF
GTID:1106330488997676Subject:Marxism in China
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As the first person for localizing Marxism in China, Li Dazhao had been the pioneer for transferring from the revolutionary democrat to Marxist. Li Dazhao was also the forerunner of localizing Marxist ethics in China, who had applied Marxist ethics to instruct the labor movement. His ethics thoughts have played a significant role in Chinese ethics history in the modern times and his efforts are irreplaceable in developing Marxist ethics with Chinese characteristics. Therefore making research on Li Dazhao’s ethics and thoughts is beneficial to understanding his thought system as well as the Marxist ethics with Chinese characteristics, which will promote the socialist core values and socialist ethics development in the new era.The ethics of Li Dazhao has integrated both Marxist ethics thoughts and Chinese realities, which has fruitful contents and prudent logic. Li Dahao’s ethic thoughts have developed into a whole ethics system including political, economic and life ethics. His ethic thoughts have experienced lots of development and transitions, first from criticizing the old ethics of Confucius to supporting the Capitalist individualism, and then discovering the Marxist moral essence and the development view by proposing "making improvement in both the material world and human mind". And then he focused on the new ethics of "sacred labor" and put forward the proletariat political outlook of labor and finally the proletariat revolutionary philosophy. Although there are some immature thoughts in Li Dazhao’s ethics system, the values of his ethics should not be underestimated.On the basis of the present research of others, the author of the thesis makes a comprehensive analysis on the ethic thoughts of Li Dazhao, with the Works of Li Dazhao (the newly explained version) as the main text. By using the methods of materials research, comparison, history review and experimental research, the thesis first explores the historical background and origins, and then analyzes both contents and features of the ethic thoughts of Li Dazhao symmetrically, and finally makes comments on its values and significance.This thesis has five parts. The first chapter explains the basic ideas of the author. The second chapter makes a history review of Li Dazhao’s ethics thought in terms of social and history background and the main factors and process of ethics thoughts. And the author then tries to explore its mechanisms and causes. Chapter three analyzes the contents of Li Dazhao’s ethics which include the moral development view, economic ethics, political ethics and revolutionary philosophy. Chapter four sums up the characteristics of Li Dazhao’s ethics systems and analyzes several features such as the moral systems in material concepts, the integration of destroying the old ethics while establishing the new one, constantly focusing on the development of people in new society and the combination of ethics improvement and political revolution. Chapter five explores both historic contributions and modern values of his ethics systems and analyzes its historic and present significance, especially in terms of the contributions to the socialist moral practice of China.
Keywords/Search Tags:Li Dazhao’s ethics thoughts, Marxist ethics with Chinese characteristics, moral development view, new ethics of "sacred labor", revolutionary philosophy
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