A Comparative Study Of Xunzi's Ideas Of "Nature And Human" And Marx's Theory Of "Man And Nature"

In modern society, faced with increasingly severe environmental problems, human began to reflect the relationship between man and nature, to explore the way to solve the problem. In the process of reflection, many scholars believe that the anthropocentrism which advocate conquer and control of nature is the culprit for the ecological crisis of modern society. While Marx's theory of man and nature as demonstrated human subjectivity, is considered a typical representative of anthropocentrism; even some Western scholars criticized Marx is an anthropocentrism who advocated separation between nature and human. In this case, many Westerners who fell into ecological predicament began keen on the theory of relation between nature and human of China, as they think it contains rich ideas of harmony between man and nature, can serve as a guiding theory. In fact, although the theory of relation between nature and human of China advocated the unity between man and nature by the thinking pattern of "unity", but the thinking pattern merely the emotional level of experience with simple and intuitive etc, have strong limitations of the times. Contrast, Marx's theory of"man and nature"break the original subject-object dichotomy of thinking, standing point of practice, made points that there is an object of sexual relationship between man and nature, addressed the relationship between man and nature by dialectical method.Through comparison we can identify. This paper selects the Xunzi's ideas of "nature and human" which is a typical representative of the theoretical system of relation between nature and human of China comparison with Marx's theory of "man and nature" in the way of thinking, theory and other aspects, attempt to dig dug deep meaning of Marx's theory of "man and nature", demonstrate its t superiority and contemporary value.