Font Size: a A A

Emotional Existence And Emotional Liberation

Posted on:2009-12-02Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Z LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360272958856Subject:Marxist philosophy
Abstract/Summary:PDF Full Text Request
When Marx interpreted human beings as sensual existence from "the sensual activities" principle, he also interpreted the liberation of human being as the liberation of sensibility. The interpretation is basic components of philosophy thought of Marx's ontology as well as an inevitable conclusion of Marx's ontology philosophy revolution.It is traditional philosophy existed from Plato and Aristotle that human beings have been definited a kind "rational animal. The tradition reached its radiance peak in Hegel's philosophy after Descartes' establishing objective philosophy. The monolithic existence of human being was tore apart and "sinnlichkiet"-the motional state that reveals human beings' complete existence, was locked and wrapped, as rational absolute valuable standards being set up and really becoming dominated logical of social life.Actually, there had been a voice against rational tyranny, till Hegel's death, the strong "Dehegelization" movement did take place.In the history of philosophy, Feuerbach upgraded "sensibility"("Sinnlichkeit"), the concept which once have been defamed even degraded, to ontological position, Feuerbach would launch critiques to contemporary philosophy and even the whole general philosophy, intending to break down rational metaphysical fundamental framework completely, Leading philosophy from former epistemology to the theory of existence, when he interpreted "reality" as "sensibility-object" ,when he interpreted human beings and nature as human beings' foundation as technique , general, highest, object of "new philosophy, and when he asserted Hegel's philosophy was the last theological shelter and rational crutch. Yet, Feuerbach didn't interpret "sensibility" as "sensual activity" but "sensual object", standing on the theoretical ground, which means that Feuerbach's interpretation was confined to "pure perception" and "pure intuition", so, "human beings" and "nature" were still an empty chatter there. His philosophy became a branch of Hegel philosophy.But, Feuerbach's "Sinnlichkeit philosophy" didn't come in vain, and his thought still influenced a lot of philosophers of existentialism. From the connection between Marx philosophy and Feuerbach philosophy, sensibility-which is of ontological quality in objective principle is the endless thinking source of Marxism philosophy from beginning to end, which showed as following: studying "object of thinking" being different from "sensual object" .Using "sensual world" set up with sensibility to destroy "super-sensual world" set up with abstract, speculated philosophy; Leading philosophy to non-philosophy. So standing on his own base ground, Marx firmly undertook and carried out this principle. But in this regard, the second international theorist represented by Plekhanov and Merlin and the originator of western Marxism, Lukacs didn't grasp the real thinking wealth what Feduerbach left to Marx.In Paris Manuscripts, on one hand, the sensual objective principles were undertaken and carried out firmly, on the other hand, it's carried out by the "activity" principle everywhere when the sensibility objective principle were used. That's Marx's "sensibility-objective activity principle" which was born on the base of fully absorbing and reconstructing sensibility-objective principle. Marx broke through the core of modern metaphysical framework-the interiority of consciousness, setting "existence"( human beings and their world),free from the interior of consciousness, to cause the whole traditional subjectivity philosophy (speculated philosophy)wreck and ruin, which was the philosophy revolution started by Marx on the base of the theory existence. In his opinion, objective world consists of human beings' setting up themselves; but it wasn't that kind of "consciousness" of rational metaphysics or the activity of "self-consciousness, not human being's" "pure activity" but their "sensual activity" or "objective activity", so existence (human being's) didn't build on the foundation of consciousness, "consciousness got foundation from existence (human beings existing in "sensual activity"). Later, Marx's ontological thought was clearly in the German Ideology, it is that consciousness is only a king of existence which is recognized, and human being's existence is a process of their real life.It is no wonder that Marx's raising "sensual activity" principle came into reality from rethinking to Feuerbch's Hegel philosophy criticizing. It is easy to understand there is no historic in Feuerbach's sensibility-objective principle or lacking the historic principle and negative dialectic method analysis as creating and promoting principle is the greatest in Hegel philosophy .Hegel seized the nature of labor and interpreted human beings as a principle. Hegel seized the nature of labor and interpreted human beings as outcome of their own labor, when took human beings as a process of self-generation. But Marx also knew that Hegel canceled nature and finally cleared up the history during the concept movement of Hegel's abstract speculation. Marx opened the new realm of ontology. Then, he also opened the whole realm of issues of modern western philosophy, through uniting nature, Human being and history-three things in themselves, the illustration that labor is a kind of "sensual activity".Marx regarded "sensual activity" is kind of human beings' existing way when he interpreted human being as existence. When Human beings were generating themselves, the world came into being as well. The process of human being's activity is the one that the world encounters the human beings. Obviously, "The world" here is not a pure physical world, so it's not scientific world, to be specific, its sensual psychological world. The nature of the world shows clearly human beings' coming or being on the scene. So the nature of the world is the human-related existence.In Paris Manuscripts, there are some statements as follows: "sensual nature" is directly another-sensual existing human beings'; "History is real natural one of human beings' "; "Language is sensual nature" etc. All the statements are Marx's revealing human beings from various aspects. At the same time, Marx thought, "sensual consciousness" and "sensual needs" were always carried out in the aspects of human beings' sensual existence. In his opinion, "sensual consciousness" is "free conscious-activity", Activity(practice)is conscious activity, "consciousness" is "active (practical)consciousness". Sensual consciousness is human-related as well as fore-logical. It is a experience and understanding of their own existence in their direct life activity, which distinguishes human beings from animals radically. That isn't human beings' general existence but a kind of regulation of human beings all-in-one living live in "existence", "Sensual needs" as sensual activity is a kind of pursuit to their own objective natural powers, which is real "sensual conscious" .So, Marx once said like this: perception, passion etc is not only the regulation real humanistic, but also the real human beings' ontological affirmation.Human beings as sensual existence, must be historic passive, motile ones, which means that human beings' real sensibility necessarily encountered the trap of history during it expression .Marx revealed the differences appeared during the development of life through the academic premise of public economics critique to the concept of "labor". To be specific, it revolved around alienated labor, private property and ideology and so on. Marx understood the alienation of human being's real life, which is different from public economics, and the theory of alienated labor went through various aspects into the whole critique, which is the critique to modern metaphysical and capital principle as foundation of modern society.Marx regarded human beings' dissimilation as self-dissimilation of their own, as he interpreted human beings from sensual activity, and interpreted history as their own one. That means, on the one hand real lives need private property in development and the other hand, they perish it now.Since the human beings' alienation is the one of sinnlichkiet activity, which means that all the objective existence was shown to objective activity or human beings are certificated as human beings, which is changed in to the power of dissimilation to enslave and rule human beings. It can be illustrated from this, human beings are dehumanized; their all idiosyncrasy is evacuated, and the human being became a kind of abstract existence. And alienation became a kind of unbearable powers, which makes it necessary to abrogate alienation. Communists' idea is enough to abrogate dissimilation in thoughts and communist movement is needed to abrogate dissimilation in real life. The abrogation of dissimilation and dissimilation are also true. The abrogating of dissimilation which means communism, is sensual possession to their own nature and life, is the complete return of nature, is a union completed between natural human beings' nature and human beings' natural quality, is real natural resurrection, is complete-liberation of human beings' perception and quality.Marx stated the human beings' liberation from the point of existing theory, because human beings' complete liberation is complete sensual liberation, is returning to the connecting state of primordial nature of "existence"(the world),to the state of sensual existence and abrogated abstract existence. Then, human beings can't be come lost in existence but hold on to itself. According to Heidegger, Dasein is near existence, so it can guard truth.We can see that the liberating human beings' sensibility is a inevitable conclusion of Marx ontological philosophy revolution. Marx peeled off the all kinds of visional appearance wrapped on human beings, penetrated deeply on the foundation of existence, really captured the original state of existence and divergence of history, through the critique to the whole modern civilized social metaphysical principle and capital principle so that sensual principle was carried out which is about human beings' liberated communist theory at the height of ontology.Mark's sinnlinchkeit liberation theory about human beings really influenced modern philosophy movement. It concerns whether we can step in to the issue realm of Marx philosophy, following him deeply into the field of history and seeking the truth of existence .Understanding and capturing the theory about human beings liberation from the height of ontological philosophy; It directly concerns how we give out up the main attitude and position of modern practical movement; It directly concerns how we deal with the modern response to Marx's theory.
Keywords/Search Tags:Marx, Sensual activity, Sensual existence, Alienation, Sensual liberation, Eros liberation
PDF Full Text Request
Related items