The Comparision Of Aristotle's Concept Of Leisure With Marx's Comprehensive Development Concept

Aristotle regarded "leisure" as the ideal goal that people have pursued. Marx put the full and free "personality" of people as the ideal state that the human beings inevitably reach in the future. Fundamentally speaking, they are the thinking about the ideal state of human's free existence. Their foothold is the person's development. They both concern about the survival state, and pursue a life of which belongs to people. They think that the survival state of people is a kind of process which has possessed their own nature after emerging from the external constraints (including nature,society,oneself). However, they have a different understanding, such as the people's nature,the logical basis of the theory and the channels of realizing the self-value.In this paper, by the comparative research method, I reveal the two thinkers on the meaning and features of the true state of the "people" .The realization of this state completes in the activities, but their theoretical foundation is different, one is the ethical practice, and the other is material production practice. Ultimately, Marx's Human's comprehensive development concept built on the basis of material production is actual and concrete .So, Marx's Human's comprehensive development concept oversteps the Aristotle's concept of leisure.