On Marx's Practical Subjectivity

Philosophers before Marx studied subjectivity with abstraction and confined to the spiritual field: philosophers discussed cognition regardless of practice; moralists seeked the basis of morality from human nature; aestheticists explored aesthetic awareness not from human practice; sociologists attempted to define the motive force for social development from human desires and objectives. Marx developed the subjectivity theory both extensively and intensively: in his philosophy, subjectivity not only exists in the spiritual field, but also heads far into reality. Marx verified its reliance on practice, "All the human practice must be included in the perfect definition of things." According to Marx, subjectivity has become an issue of gnoseology related to practice rather than one of speculation related to abstraction. Practice is an approach to subjectivity; subjectivity is a tendency to practice on the Other hand. The latter is an integral part of human practice. Therefore, the issue of subjectivity is in essence an issue of practice.Subjectivity "itself is changed from a free theoretic spirit into the power of practice, walking out of the shadowy kingdom of Amensaisi as a will, and turning to face the mundane reality beyond the theoretic spirit". Consequently, the internal self-complacency and exclusivism have been broken, those that belong to internal radiance have also been turned into external swallowing flames. Hence, the philosophilization of the word is the globalization of philosophy, too. In this way, the practical subjectivity "always has a two-edged demand, one towards the world whereas the other towards philosophy.Based upon the above analysis, a conclusion can be reached: subjectivity is generated, developed, and presented through human practice while human practiceitself is also the existential form and presentational process of subjectivity. In belief, the existence of experience bears profound meanings of theories.