A Comparative Study Of Marx And Arendt 's View Of Happiness

Marx and Arendt is life in two different in character, due to the different theory background, values and, making two of understanding of happiness, as to the happiness of capitalism in the era of the concept is a different understanding.Marx is standing in the height of the liberation of all human beings to expand their own theory of happiness. Marx viewpoint of historical materialism to analyze people’s social life and human nature, and of human nature alienation, to sublate alienation and how to eliminate the alienation brought misfortune to elaborate a person’s happiness. Marx inherited the happiness of thinking on the basis of.Critically inheriting the rationalism happiness theory and rationalism happiness theory, etc., had to overcome traditional philosophy thinking and understanding of happiness of one sidedness, thus people can better pursuit and understanding of happiness and pointed out the direction. The pursuit of human liberation and happiness, is Marx’s life in the pursuit of the theme, but also the life of Marx’s struggle and dedication to the goal.Arendt Hanna based on the distinction between public and private life, pay attention to the value of public life to human. Through comparison of the French Revolution and the American democratic revolution pointed out that the French Revolution failed because they will solve poverty as the core of the social problem as the revolutionary goal and necessity to overwhelm the public liberty resulting in the failure of the revolution. And the American Revolution is always in order to construct the public liberty and public space for the purpose of and after the revolution, the revolutionaries formulated the partition of private field and public domain boundaries of a constitution, maintain the excellent American revolutionary tradition. Arendt from the perspective of political philosophy to explain their own public happiness perspective.Marx is from the angle of economic base to analyze their own happiness outlook,Arendt was a purely political science from the point of view to analyze their own happiness view, can be seen, Arendt’s concept of happiness and Marx the happiness of mankind’s theory purport is a far cry from. By comparing the concept of happiness,this article will help us to grasp Marx’s concept of happiness as a whole, so as to better serve our modern construction.