On Social Vitality

Social vitality becomes the topic and hot issue in contemporary china. It is not only the essential requirement of the idea of harmonious society, but also the logical necessity of social development of china. Development is forever the theme of an era. One must poses strong vitality to develop. The process of human historical development is also the unlimitedly developed process that represents the ability of human's cognition and practice. The transition of the passive-adaptability to the active-creativity for survival of social subject, as well as the evolution of self-consciousness reveals grow and exhibition of the vitality of social subject.Social vitality is not only the representation of the active, vital, vigorous spiritual mood of a society, but also the mechanism and dynamic factor that runs through the human development all the time. Only an active society, a society that fills with vitality can develop and make progress. It is the same to a country, a nation and a territory. Therefore, social vitality is not a brand-new topic, but an unchangeable issue that exists in the history of social development. Its far-reaching significance becomes explicit in contemporary era, which demands us to cognize and learn it by careful and further investigation. The research of social vitality is essentially the exploration of the process that shows the ability of human's cognition and practice. It is also the discussion of the dynamical foundation, as well as the dynamical mechanism of the social development. On the basis of the exploration, the study tries to go deep into the construction of cognition and conception of the relations of human and nature, human and society, oneself, the essence and development of human, as well as the social development, in order to actively find out the possible routes that help to improve the social vitality.The research of the history and development of vitality in the background of both west and china from the perspectives of human social science, as well as the abundant and profound ideas of social vitality of Marx's theory system, beome the abundant resources of this dissertation. The vital turn of contemporary china represents the views that start from the contruction reality of china, and the dialectial analysis and rational thinking about the dynamics of social development. Social vitality has the significance of ontology, existentialism, axiology value towards the development of society and human beings. We can only find the secrets of the occurrence of social vitality from the complex characteristics of the psychological genetic of human's vitality, the creative characteristics of the human existential practice, and the ability of a social organism's self-creation, self-referentiality, self-determination. We must start from the practice of human in order to grasp the essence of social vitality, in the double mutual interaction of antinomy and intension of human and nature, occurrence and change, transcending and bondage. The occurrence and creation of social vitality is the result of the interaction of praxis and action, benefit coordination, social control and knowledge praxis.Theoretical investigation consists of precondition analysis, the philosophical consideration and valuable reflection of social vitality. We must grasp the social vitality in the dialectical unification of free individuality and equity justice; respect diversity and difference, lead the diverse value conception with the socialist core value system, and try to search for the spiritual and moral support in the interaction of economy and moral, collectivity and individuality. Social vitality indeed requires a tension that can balance freedom and order, a system that allows people make choice freely and also give certain control.Rethinking and exploring social vitality from the perspective of 30 year's revolution of china is not only the requirement of developing, deepening and reflecting of social vitality theory, but also the response of the intrinsic requirement of further and deeper revolution and rational development. Summing-up the experiences and lessons that china's revolutions bring us, analyzing the factors that block the social vitality, exploring the paths that enhance social vitality are of great significance to the persistent and stable, vital and active development of china in the background of globalization.