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The Study On Marx And Engels' Ecological Philosophy

Posted on:2009-03-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y XingFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360242482791Subject:Marxist theory and ideological and political education
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The world today faces a further deterioration of the ecological environment. The ecological environment has become one of the most high-profile issues. We have to re-examine the relationship between man and nature. Human has developed and transformed the nature largly. On the one hand, natural has been asked for more and more material, on the other hand, more and more waste has been returned to the nature, leading to worsening ecological environment. Especially in recent decades, Prominent question of ecological environmental has caused a serious challenge to humanity. This requires us to a higher level of thinking this issue. We have to reflect our natural view and find a solution to ecological problems from the theoretical level.Marx's natural concept based on human practice, which inspected the specific historical relationship between human and nature from the social system, and based on social relations to realize and coordinate human and the nature, and based on social progress to achieve the benign development of the natural ecology, in order to realize the ultimate purpose of original condition and comprehensive development. When we go beyond specific"predicament", and look at the questions from the historical materialism and the scientific concept of development, Marx's "human natural concept of practice" is our world view to realize and reform nature, and also, is specific methodology to deal with the harmonious development of human and nature, and to realize the all-round development of people. Marxist view of nature is more forward-looking than any other at this point.Though Marx and Engels had not carried on the special argumentation to the ecological problem, but their philosophy thought includes the abundant and deep ecological thought. The thesis is to penetrate into the main text of Marx and Engels, studying the development orbits of the ecological thought, expounding its ecological thought's characteristics, facilitating Marxist philosophy research of history, enabling to understand ecological nature view and people and nature relations theory and showing the inherent value and contemporary meaning of ecological philosophy of Marx and Engles. In practice, the ecological philosophy thought of Marx and Engels requires us to handle affairs according to natural law and solve the ecological environment problem faced in China's social development , offering the philosophy basis for sustainable development view of China. Applying the extensive and profound ecological philosophy thought of Marx and engles to build the socialism with Chinese characteristics, strengthening our understanding of dialectical relation of nature and pople and promoting the moderniation of China .Combining their opinions that harmonious relations between nature and man with our country's reality will accelerate building the environmental friendship type society.In this article, following the thinking principle of the merge of logic and history, essentials analysis were given to primary viewpoint nature before Marx in the history of mankind, which was directly or indirectly the source of Marx's viewpoint towards nature, and clarified the history of formation and development of Marx's viewpoint towards nature, discussed different theorical guidelines of Marx's viewpoint towards nature in different period. Furthering into the ecological philosophy thinking of Marx' s viewpoint nature is the main meaning of this article. In the article, the ecological philosophy implication included in Marx's and Engels' ecological philosophy were given sufficient affirmation. Furthmore, the author discussed themain contents of Marx's towards nature and its eco-philosophy thinking in the paper, and summarized the new and revolutionary characteristics which differ from former point towards nature. Paper is divided into four parts. The developing orbits of the cological philosophy thought of Marx and Engel and the background of Marx and Engels's ecological philosophy will be ananlyzed in the first part. Human uncivilized mythology natural view and the ecological nature view of modern day all generate a direct or indirect impact on ecological philosophy thought of Marx and Engles. Marx prusued people and natural relation tentatively in Economics-Philosophy Manuscript of 1844 and formed his ecological philosophy thought's embryonic form. Marx and Engles analyzed the origins of the worsening of the capitalism ecology in Deutsche ideology, On Capital, which made the ecological philosophy gotten the further deveopment.The second part on the paper described the main contents of the natural concept of Marx and Engels, and the contents of the ecological philosophy, which analsis from nature and man,nature and society, and practice is the basis of nature and human, and also nature and society. Marx's view of nature has raised more than 100 years which advocated to base on the social relationship to realize and coordinate the relationship between man and nature. Marx's natural view based on social progress to achieve the benign development of the natural ecology, and handle correctly the relatonship between man and nature in the right direction.In this paper, the third part discussed the specific study of ecological problems of Marx and Engels.The paper inspect specifically the root of theory of knowledge and class origins and social causes on the ecological question of Marx and Engels.It displayed the basic ideas and specific ways of ecological problem of Marx and Engels.The fourth part on the paper is the significance of Marx and Engels'ecological philosophy. Mainly from the theoretical and practial levels, Marx and Engels on the ecological philosophy have important menaning which will sovle the global crisis and achieve harmony between man and nature and promote the comprehensive development of human and establish scientific development and construction of ecological civilized society.
Keywords/Search Tags:Environmental Problems, Ecological Philosophy, Sustainable Development, Historical Perspective, The Scientific Concept of Development, Deterioration of Ecological Environment
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