The Philosophical Background Of Harmonious Community

This thesis expounds mainly on the definition of harmony, analyzes traditional harmony theories, discusses on what a harmonious society is and why,how to built a harmonious community in philosophical words. This thesis consists of five parts at total.In the first part we try to give a clear definition of harmony and specify its philosophical boundary. Harmony means a stable condition with consistent relations, it is a unity of diversities based on sameness. In the second part we discuss on the harmonious ideas in historical culture before socialist theory came out and points out their mainly unsuccessful causes. In the third part we expound on the Marxism theory on harmonious community, at Marx's view, the essential premises are advanced productive force and public ownership to build a harmonious community. The advanced productive force and public ownership to build a harmonious community could bring up harmonious relationships between person and person, people and community, human and nature. In the fourth part we argues the advantages of socialism out to construct socialist harmonious community: one is the leadership of Communist Party, the Communist Party of china has set up the ideas of building harmonious society; another advantage is that the harmonious community is consistent with socialist in essence; the other is that the international circumstance supports a favorable chance to develop. In the last part we discuss the basic ways to guarantee harmonious community to come true: We should persist in the scientific development view to develop social productive force; to cope with the relation between efficiency and fairness correctly; to handle the main contradictions of social transformation rightly.