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Freedom Of Meaning And Its Contemporary Value

Posted on:2008-02-08Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y H CengFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360215984733Subject:Political Theory
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The whole history is actually a free development history that human being strives liberty for themselves. It includes the trail human being conquers the nature and cognition achievements human being has gained from reforming society, which are rich inheritance in human being's thought treasure-house.. Liberty, which runs through the entire process of Marxism' formation and development, is a core outlook on values in Marxism. Although there is not any a special volume about free problem in Marxist classics,, Marxist free thoughts are very rich and has demonstrated the distinct characteristics and important times value. For this purpose, this paper is entitled 'free implications and their present value' to explore Marxist liberal ideas or thoughts.Partâ… : liberty is an appeal of human being for ideal society. Liberty is the common pursue of human being, on which the liberty developments in East and West have their generality although they are multifarious in many other aspects in the course of world civilization. Liberty is an old but often new topic of conversation, named "riddle of liberty". In thousands of years, while a lot of thinkers have been talking about liberty, the implications of liberty are different in their minds. On the western thought history with various schools and viewpoints,, the liberty have once been brought forward respectively by liberalism, utopian socialism, anarchism and so on.. But, before Marxism comes into being, the thinkers from each school have shown a variety of one-sidedness and abstract about liberty and always failed to reveal the true meaning of human being's freedom. Only do Max and Engels sweep anything that have been misleading people, they have founded their own liberty system from the start of historical materialism and on a basis of predecessors' thoughts. It is they that have revealed the true meaning of liberty and steadfastly guided the proletariat and laboring people not to stop struggling for freedom.Partâ…¡: The boundary between Marxism and western liberty views. Marxism and the western thinkers all take liberty seriously, but the differentiation between them is also very obvious, firstly in value orientation and methodology; secondly in views and in principles. (1) freedom and equality: freedom and equality are regarded as "Natural rights" in the west, liberty means "free equality", having freedom means having equality, but the equality is the chance equality but not result equality. However, in the view of Marxism, equality is a prerequisite and guarantee for freedom to come true, liberty must take equality as basis, free right will be a bit of waste paper without equal material conditions. (2) liberty and law: The western thinkers brings forward the idea that law is the reasonable embodiment, law is the way liberty exists, having a law means having liberty, but in Marxism, fundamental law spirit is proprietary right law is the ruling class will, the law can do good also may do evil, the code should be free "Bible" of the people. (3) individual liberty and social liberty: The western thinkers think the individual has first value, the collective, society and the country all only have instrumental value, whose existence is to guarantee the individual liberty. But individual said by Marxism is individual in social relations, individual in the collective, only in the collective does individual liberty exist possibly, everyone's liberty development is the condition of all people's liberty development. (4) liberty development and all-round development: the western thinkers advocate the ideological emancipation and personality liberation, value personality development and liberty development. But Marxism shows not only concern for people's liberty development, emphasizes the overall development of human being more, i.e. everyone develops freely but all-roundly.Partâ…¢: The present value of people's free all-round development theory. In Marxism, free problem and person self's survival development have the most direct and the closest relation with social progress. Historical development indicates the founding of Marxist liberty theory not only makes liberty have had the scientific expounding, but also provides precious thought resource for human being liberty cause. First, the contemporary Chinese Marxists take people's liberty and development seriously, have given development with brand-new connotation, have advanced people's position to a due altitude, which, thereby, have moved extensive initiatives of the people and made Chinese society changing enormously but deeply. Second, each step forward the system makes every time all is based on people's progress but the system progressing every once is a promotion to people's liberty and development. Values is the system soul, people's liberty and development is the growing point of the system innovation. Third, social development should be the coordinated growth between development of person and economy, politics, culture. Essentially, society harmony is the consequence that people runs after free happiness and the all-round development. People's free all-round development theory in Marxism is the guide to construct people-oriented harmonious society. Forth, globalization is an important characteristic of human being social development today. Marxism founder in early years brought forward "world history" and "people's liberation theory". The process of globalization is the process of social development, the process of people's free all-round development of Marxism at the same time.
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