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Research On Hegel's And Marx's Solutions To The Problems Of Civil Society By Comparison

Posted on:2009-06-10Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:D Y WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360272991666Subject:Marxist theory
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The dissertation aims to compare Hegel's human emancipation theory with Marx's by discussing their solutions to the problems of civil society.According to the classical political economy, Hegel assumed that civil society has three determinations: universality, particularity and education. Logically, civil society is the necessary element of the development of Spirit. However, Hegel recognized that the reality of civil society has many problems, namely universality turned into positivity, bad infinite of pursuing material pleasures exhausted the educational function of civil society, which resulted in the gap of the rich and the poor. As a result, civil society cannot sustain its being. So Hegel posited rational state to educate individual, and attempted to save civil society by changing individual thought, which would lead to Spirit emancipation and human emancipation as well.Marx grasped the problems of civil society after three stages of exploration. To begin with, he regarded fetishism as the problem of civil society. In the second stage, Marx changed his view on civil society and pointed that the alienation of human relationship is the true problem of civil society. Finally, Marx searched into the capitalistic mode of production and found that the reason for human controlled by human powers and relations is the antimony of labor and capital. So human can emancipate themselves only by association. Furthermore, Marx solved the puzzle of human emancipation, for he discovered the coincidence of the changing of circumstances and of human activity or self-changing. That is, when human emancipate themselves by changing the capitalistic mode of production, they change themselves, proletariat's"radical needs"is a case in point.What distinguishes between Marx's and Hegel's human emancipation theory is as follows: (1) the essence of their true community; (2) their approach to human emancipation; (3) the result of their appeal for human emancipation.
Keywords/Search Tags:Marx, human emancipation, freemen association
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