On The Evolution Of Western Process Thought And The Contemporary Value Of Marx’s Process View

In the history of western thinking,process thought,as one of the resources whichgrasp the human itself and the world,has always been in the development ofphilosophy.However,in the original of western philosophy so much as the wholeprocess of the development,the dominance is traditional philosophy with thesubstance at the core category.Process thought is most time hiddden so that cant’thighlight the important significance and unique value.It is the bad influence on thecomprehensive understanding of philosophy, and even understanding and grasp thetrue connotation of the essence of human and the world.Studying the history of western philosophy, process thought is always with allsorts of recessive or dominant form to express its own theoretical pursuit and realityvalue in different philosopher in different time.And because of the decomposition ofsubstance philosophy by modern philosophy due to historical and realistic factors,process thought cast off the yoke of the substance philosophy so that its positivesignificance and truth to emerging.Although not surpassing the substancephilosophy,process thought plays an important role in revising the defect of thedualism of substance philosophy for pursuiting eternal,independent and self-causedultimate reality,and remodeling the integrity,universal relation,opening and processingfor the human and the world.Process thought is able to provide a new developmentdirection for western philosophy different from substance philosophy to explore theall-round development of the human.Only comprehensively and objectively,therefore,researching on the evolution logic of process thought in the development ofwestern philosophy, we can accurately hold the overall situation of the trueexploration to the human and the world in the whole western philosophy.Only so,itmay be unfolded that process thought of Marxian philosophy and its importancesignificance to surpassing the other process thought in the traditional substancephilosophy,providing a brand new vision field and development direction.In the developing logic of western philosophy with the substance at thecategory,this dissertation strives to delineate the inner historical inevitability ofprocess thought by analyzing the transition when western philosophy facing to different issues.And trying to analyze the reason why the ancient Greek philosophyhappened to turn the original process thought to substance philosophy in the processof exploring the origin and the unity of the human and the world.Investigating processthought is how to implicit development in the process of the strengthening of thesubstance caused by the rise of the medieval Christian philosophy understanding thesubstance as religious God to make it an absolute.Tring to interpret modernphilosophy dissects process thought to reveal the meaning process thought onexploring the cognition on the human and the world in the evolution logic of theepistemology turn and the process of the further strengthening of the substancephilosophy.Revealing the gradually development of process thought in germanclassical philosophy by criticizing the traditional philosophy,especially throughHegelian philosophy that absolute spirit set itself to self generated, the process of selfdevelopment and self realization in the Hegel’s philosophy,makes always processthought which is always veiled by substance philosophy come into view really in thelogic development of western philosophy to highlight its important theoretical andpractical significance.In the background of western traditional philosophy beingdispelled due to the substance philosophy itself unable to overcome the inherentcontradiction in the reality and history dual factors,analyzing possibility that processthought different from the basic position and requirement of traditional substancephilosophy can be a new evolution direction of contemporary western philosophy iswhether or not.Then through the analysis of process thought own theoretical difficulties andcrisis in its development process,dealing with the basic understanding of Marxianphilosophy on the process on the relationship between Marx’s philosophy and processthoughts.In fully affirming Marxian philosophy produced in the logic process ofwestern philosophy, and confirming Marxian philosophy itself an inherent consistencywith western philosophy because of history and theory, revealing the rich processthought containing in Marxian philosophy and the significance on the criticism andreconstruct of the traditional philosophy. The dissertation attempts to analyze thepossibility that it regards Marxian process thought as a carrier of metaphysicaldimension of Marxian philosophy,and discuss the surpassing to other process thought,especially Whitehead’s process philosophy as the typical of contemporaryprocess thought,so that it shows the uniqueness, richness and comprehensiveness ofMarxian process thought.Different from process thought in the evolution of the history of westernphilosophy, Marxian process thought pays more attention to the existence, thedevelopment and the realization of the self value and significance of real individual.Base on actual perceptual, historical practice activity of real individual, Marxianphilosophy makes process thought come true as a fundamental way of holding thehuman and the world. Not existing the human essence which is existence and set inadvance to wait to be found by man itself, the existence of human only can berevealed by the interaction between the actual activity of man itself, that is praxis, andthe world including human. Comparing with the existence, process is more importantto the human and the world, in other words, the existence of people is their lifeprocess. And it is a basic position of Marxian process thought.