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Study Of The Nature And Characteristics Of Marx's Ethical Thought

Posted on:2010-06-22Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H L XinFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360278454412Subject:Marxist theory and ideological and political education
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Marx's theory of ethical thoughts has a important position in his theory system, a lot of people think that Marx does not have his own ethics, but it is undeniable that Marx has his own ethical thinking, Marx's discourses, particularly his philosophical works, contain rich moral philosophy and contents of the philosophy of life, ethical thinking. In "The Complete Works of Marx and Engels", the word "morality" appeared a few thousand times, even though Marx have the ideological changes in the process of studying, but he had never given up morality of human concern, Marx's academic life and practice both were concerned about ethical issues.In this dissertation, my main task will be identified as: first, to grasp the dynamic: to have a comprehensive follow-up home and abroad to study Marx-ethical development of thoughts, especially thoughts of Marx's ethical and moral thoughts of the mainstream Western tradition of the great masters, criticized and abandoned in order to grasp the emergence of Marx-ethical ideological background of deep thinking; Secondly, to identify problems: to have a integration of research and original works of Marx's thoughts in the interpretation of the ethics, to refine context and internal logic from the development of Marx's ethics, to show a concrete, historical, practical and point of view of ethics, with a view to achieve self-realization and perfection; Third, to a reasonable construction: to learn the current thinking of study of Marx's ethical core of the rational, to sum up unique between the Western tradition of ethics, to supply for China's socialist moral construction.This dissertation is divided into five chapters:Chapterâ… discussed Marx and morality, Marx and Ethics, as well as an analysis of research home and abroad. In the West, there are some debates on the nature of Marx's ethical thoughts, it was considered to be humanitarian, utilitarian, or mixed utilitarian; there are many aspects of Marx's ethical thoughts, such as Ecological Ethics, Economic Ethics, ethical thinking of technology, etc.. From the beginning of the 60's of 20th century, Chinese scholars began to study Marxist ethics, but most of them were copying the Soviet model of textbooks, Luo guojie's "Marxist Ethics" discussed the origin of moral ideas of Marx, mainly focused on communism on moral, ethical revolution, and the correct attitude towards traditional morality and so on, so far, there is a few monographs of thinking on Marx's ethical thoughts. Chapterâ…¡researched the origin of and the approach of Marx's ethical thoughts. In the first section, the main study was putted in the inheritance of great masters of Western ethics, such as Kant, Hegel and Feuerbach, had a comparison between Marx and Kant from the history of moving, ethical principles and the target triple of moral sense, and between Marx and Hegel was from the ultimate causes of historical development, the different points of view of "civil society", as well as understanding of the relationship of political country and moral goals, Feuerbach's understanding of human nature, as well as religious alienation and human issues such as the total liberation of all have had a major impact on Marx.In Sectionâ…¡, to sum up the logic and approach roads of Marx's ethical thoughts from the Marxist analysis of different period, to sum up the individual free and all-round development of the Marx's view that the value should be pursuit of the ultimate goal from the "doctoral thesis" period to the "Das Kapital" period of development and evolution of Marx's ethical thoughts.Chapterâ…¢focused on the nature of Marx's ethical thoughts, to boil Marx's ethical thought down the essence of freed and all-round development of human. Marx cleaned up ethics of the past thinking, identified Realistic Human as the starting point for thinking, the essence of human would be the basis of Marx's ethical thoughts by research of the "three-stage theory" of human development and the nature of human, analyzed the path of achieving the free and all-round development of human.Chapterâ…£researched the essence of Marx's ethical thoughts. Selected reality, critical and humanity to address among many essences of Marx's ethical thoughts. Reality reflected into giving up the abstract principle of current school, started on the old world of ethical criticism, thought about the facts of the experience dialectically; practicality is the source of Marx's critique of modernity, interpreted from the social relations of modernity, compared the distinction between bourgeois humanitarian thoughts and Marx's, it exists essential differences between the Marxist Ethics and bourgeoisie humanitarian.Chapterâ…¤interpreted the contemporary significance of Marx's ethical thoughts, explored guiding significance of Marx's ethical thoughts for moral construction of socialism and the socialist movement mainly from people-oriented which was the guiding ethical principle, Marx's ethical thoughts have great significance of the realization of free and all-round development of human, to be able to wake up and give people the qualities of the various potentials given by the process of natural history, to the fullest access to the development, to generate a comprehensive Objective Relationship, to achieve higher degree of personal rich social relationships.As far as possible, there are the following innovations in this dissertation: first, the integration of history and literature, to trace and excavate Marx's original work on the basis of the combination of natural history and social development process of the study, Secondly, the integration of freedom and norms, to address the value of the objective of development the history of mankind and the socialist moral construction related issues, Third, the integration of logic and construction, to explore the inherent logic of the development process of Marx's ethical thoughts combining the construction of contemporary significance of Marx's ethical thoughts.
Keywords/Search Tags:Marx, Ethics thoughts, Essence, Features
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