Study On Ethical Thought In German Ideology

Germany Ideology is the second work which is written by Marx and Engels. It is called the birth certificate of Marxist philosophy. In this work, they formulated completely the basic principles of historical materialism, founded the new conception of history. The materialism which is established by Marx and Engels by no means explains the question abstractly, but explains person' s survival and the development problems through pondering the historical question. Therefore, in the Marx and Engels' historical materialism the history is not an abstract process which is external. The historical idea is not the abstract principle which separates from person' s activity. The history is exactly the process of the person' s actual activity occurrence and the changes. The historical idea promulgates person' s existence by person' s activity, explains the significance of life value. Therefore, the establishment of Marx the Engels' historical materialism which produces the influence in ethics question is not only containing a flash of thought light, but establishes distinctively their moral standpoint, ethics thinking mode and the theory sight. These thought manifested in Germany Ideology.Marx and Engels take the person's reality as their standpoint, establish reality individual as the history beginning in Germany Ideology. This establish realistic individual as morality entity in ethics in fact. This means that the morality can not be the abstract speculation, but must return to the real life on reality individual. It also establishes interaction between productive forces and production relations as the historical motive force. This also clears about the display of moral function way and its limit in further, establishes human' s all-round development as the goal of historical value. In fact it also indicates clearly the ultimate value in ethics should be the entity of human' s consummation, society' s progress and the civilized promotion.This article launches according to the above mentality, mainly divides into five parts. The first part is an introduction which introduces Marx the Engels' development vein in ethics thought, clear about the theory preparation and academic circle's research tendency under the historical materialism sight. The second part expounds the ethics significance because of reality individual as the beginning of history. The third part establishes interaction between productive forces and production relations as the historical motive force . It clears about the display of moral function way and its limit. The fourth part indicates the stipulation from the goal of historical value to ethical value. The fifth part analyzes intently the critique on morality from Marx and Engels to each kind of bourgeoisie.