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The Essence Of Karl Marx's Freedom And Its Contemporary Situation

Posted on:2005-10-02Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J S ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360125450989Subject:Marxist philosophy
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It is not difficult for us to draw this conclusion that Marx's historical materialism was developed on the basis of "realistical man" if we have an impartial understanding about his whole philosophy. He never overshadowed the vivid and spiritual man with the dead materials and the abstract mentalities and never denied "free and conscious activity" with the rules of mechanical and boring materials or the intrinsic rules of "absolute mentality".On the contrary ,Marx awefully emphasized the freedom as human's essence was realized through practising. He considered practice as "an absolutely creative activity",a kind of historical and conscious activity. All the affairs of human are produced and solved through practice. Freedom must be connected with practice. In Marx's opinion, freedom is the living space and living sense which are explored continuously with the human's prctice. Freedom is a course but a certain state because the practice is endless. Freedom is also a trend that guides the practice because it is a value that humans can not resist chasing. True freedom is not only a perfect living state but a developing one for the humans. That is the key to master the totally new way of thinking that was begun from Marx in order to understand and illustrate the essence of Marx's minds about freedom. That is to put the freedom in the history to explain .The realization of freedom must be connected with the realistic activities for the better lives. The traditional educational books considered that freedom can be reached through knowing all the necessaries. Freedom only has something with the numbers of necessary. Freedom has comepletly become into a conception of cognition. However, freedom is a conception of ontology. The endevours to explore it continuously are the history of humans. The practice without any value itself can not make any sense. Just because of the pursue for the freedom, practice can create the more living spaces and more meaningful lives. Freedom is not only a value destination but also a realistic living. Ultilization of necessaries serve the human to realize their freedom. Freedom is the end. There is not any activity only for knowing some necessary at all.Practice is inherent in humans. Marx thought human influenced the direction of changing for the contemporary and conceptual world through humans' creative and critical practice. Exploring freedom can not be equal to realize freedom. Realization of freedom must depend on practice. Practice is the unique for solving the problem of humans' freedom because it inheres in humans. The products of practice are the embodiments of freedom. They are two aspects in the same course. Exploring freedom is a kind of endless impetus. Freedom leads the practice to tap the new road, it nevers design any certain target for itself. Freedom means to live a true life, it is a kind of changing existence for the humans. Freedom attracts practice, at the same time, practice concretizes freedom. Freedom can not have an end but have the trend that leads humans to develop their all the ablities. The most important significance of Marx's philosophy lies in reminding humans to keep the some conflicts between ideal and reality, the final destination and the historical existence in order to own the critical mentality and transcendent consciousness forever. Whether can reach the so called final existence, explanation and value was never walked into the horizon of Marx.Understanding the minds of Marx's freedom can have a strong reponse to the challenges which come from the modern western philosophy. Existentialism thinks Marx' freedom is nihil. Freedom is the affair only for the individual. Therefore they illustrate freedom with the personal and private feelings. Actually, though Marx focused on the freedom of the whole human, Marx founded this sort of freedom on the basis of individual freedom. Marx announced clearly that the individual freedom is the premise for the whole humans' freedom. Therefore, existentialism freedom that can not...
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