Reflection And Construction Of National Spirit

Hegel's self-consciousness necessarily represents as national spirit in itself development course, national spirit is also absolute spirit's various phases and forms in world history. Like self-consciousness's evolvement, national spirit becomes more perfect and finally attains absolute spirit on the history stage. Hegel's national spirit flourishes between transcendental time and space, i.e. the history being built by self-consciousness or absolute spirit. So Hegel's national spirit is the prevalent, eternal national spirit. Hegel firstly presupposes the existence of absolute spirit, and reduces national spirit through the development of self-consciousness in history course. In spite of the real history or the transcendental history, national spirit still continuously develops like history devolvement. But Marx firstly reveals self-consciousness's sensible essence as his goal, to clean up Hegel's absolute self-consciousness. Since self-consciousness's absolution is cleaned up, the subject of history stage is no more an absolute self-consciousness, but a sensible self-consciousness filled with feeling, consciousness, demands etc. So on basis of sensible history, Marx concretely analyses Hegel's concept of national spirit, and then pursuing the ultimate objective in back of history. With his sensible experience, reasonable thinking, excellent thought, particular forecast, Marx points out the theory of class clarifying, national revolution, liberation of human being etc, and validates the ultimate value of human being. Marx's national spirit is the spirit of his Zeitgeist, the spirit of having vital vigor, the spirit of liberating self-nation by its own way and liberating human being.