Lost And Pursuit

When globalization together with modernity has swept over every corner of the world, China has been making her history a process that she meets the challenges from the western world in the above context and seeks to construct modern civilization of China since the 20^th century. Modernity brings about positive reforms on the life values and meanwhile the contradiction aroused in the developmental process also makes some negative effects on the life values of the modern people. With the loss of value and meaning of life, there appears some tendency concerning the life values, such as nihilism, extreme individualism, pluralism, utilitarianism, irrationalism, with modernity as a broad background, the life values has been an unavoidable problem that no matter western or Chinese people are concerned with. Many philosophers have paid attention to this issue and they varies only in extent. Although their ideas are not short of instructive ideas and sparkling points, some shortcoming are inevitable. The main purpose of this thesis is to seek what kind of life values should be acquired and the end of the study is Marxist life values. This thesis is divided into three parts, conforming to the form of raising question, analyzing it and solving it. With modernity as the background and visual field of theory, and in combination with specific characteristic of China's modernity, the first part makes a true and objective investigation about the appearance and origin of the life values in the context of modernity. The second part makes a concise exposition on western and Chinese philosophers' responses to the issue, and analyses their reasonable elements as well as defects. On the basis of subletting the resources of western and Chinese values, the last part delves further into the principle and way of acquiring scientific life values, and put forward the idea that we should in practice acquire scientific life values orientation of life and value, whose basis and kernel is Marxist life values.