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The Philosophy Analysis Of Consumption

Posted on:2012-05-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X M YuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2189330332995603Subject:Marxist philosophy
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Consumption is one of the eternal themes in human survival and development world. Human survival and development are inseparable from the consumption, the day of human existence as long as consumption is the human practice of eternal. Consumption in the historical development process, is an indispensable factor, plays an irreplaceable role and can not be ignored. Marx once said: "From the day of the human appear in the Earth stage, consumption every day, whether they start production before and during production are the same ". This shows that Marx's theory of consumption in the occupied status of the system. Consumption began as an economic issue as the research into the human visual threshold, initially defined on the consumption of the definition of economics, that consumption is the consumption of material goods and services and use of, but consumption is not just an economic act, not only refers to the use value of goods which to meet the specific needs. As Marx said: "consumption which is not only seen as the end and seen as the end of the last acts of the purpose, in addition to its role at the starting point in turn and re-ignite the whole process, the original does not belong to the scope of economics ". Therefore, there is another meaning of consumption. In addition to this consumer research in economics, there are still many issues need further study, the nature of some of the consumption issues also need to study from a philosophical point of view. The first history of human activity is to meet its own needs for production activities, material production is the basis and premise of human history, and it itself is based on the needs of people as the reasons and under, leave the people's needs, the existence of material production to lose meaning and value, and the need is out of the consumer reproduction, so there is no consumption and production to no purpose, no consumption would not have the presence of human society and human history of the development. In this context, the philosophical significance of consumption can not only enrich the Marxist historical materialism, but also our theoretical results related to critical absorption, digestion and hegemony of consumerism, and in the real world to better address consumer issues in the theoretical premise. In this paper, at the guidance of Marxist philosophy, through analysis the consumption's philosophy meaning, advocacy,establish a scientific view of consumption, for scientific consumption, digestion hegemony of consumerism, and promote the human comprehensive development and social progress. Preamble to illustrate the significance of the topic, the research areas involved in research status and issues to be addressed in this paper, research methods and basic ideas.The first part is the "consumer" usually described. First, the meaning of consumption analysis, staring from the evolution of the consumption'meaning and the different of consumption's philosophy meaning and economics meaning to extract the philosophical meaning of consumption. Secondly, through the nature and purpose of consumption's analysis and pointed out that the nature of consumption is to meet people's needs. Again, from analysis the relationship of consumption, the needs and the natural to explain the consumption's Philosophy meaning. Finally, from elaborate the role of consumption in promoting human social relations and human free and comprehensive development to illustrate the philosophical significance of consumption.The second part is an overview of a variety of consumer theory point of view. Firstly, the consumption theory of Marx expounded, from the consumption,production,reproduction's relationship and the theory of Marx's Estranged Labor,Fetishism to Elaborate Marx's Theory of Consumption. Secondly, analysis the classical western philosophers theory of the consumption.The third part is to analysis the issues of consumption that emerge in today's society, from the basic content of Western consumerism and the generation and development to discuss, then analyzes the impact of consumerism on China and the resulting harm.The fourth part is the scientific concept of development from the Perspective of consumption analyzed. First of all, the meaning of the scientific development concept and source of ideas are described, then put forward the scientific view of consumption. Finally, discusses ways to establish a scientific view of consumption, advocate people to set scientific consumption view.
Keywords/Search Tags:Consumption, Consumerism, Scientific consumption view
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