Marx's "world-historical Individuals" Thought And Its Contemporary Significance

Marx has certainly made plain the idea of"the world-historical individual"in German Ideology, with the idea he has scientifically united the process of individual's full development and the whole development of world history, and made it the basic goal of world history and human's development. Based on globalization and human development, this paper digs the holy thought of Marx, and with the philosophical perspective and the whole-process viewpoint, the paper makes the research of world history development and human being's development, discloses human world reaches its humanity and liberation in the interaction of human's world and world's human, displaying Marx's concern for human being .The main part of this paper is divided into three parts.The first part mainly introduces the source of Marx'thought of world-history individual. The paper gives argument of this thought from its historical background. The times that Marx was living is the times that history was changing into world history. Marx made the research about the change. During the research about the change, Marx never gave away the concern for the realistic development and liberation of individuals. Taking the concern for individual in the process of world history as the starting point, Marx established the thought of world-history individual; meanwhile, the produce of the thought has its profound cultural background and historical resource. The paper makes the research on the thoughts of"world citizen"of Kant's historical naturalistic criticism,"world history individual"of Hegel's historical philosophy and"human is the nature of human being"of Feuerbach's materialism. All this provides the rich and wide theoretical basis and inspiration source for Marx's"world-history individual".The second part systematically gives the philosophical explanation about Marx's"world-historical individual". This thought is not only the inner linking part of Marx's world history theory but also the main part of Marx's humanism. This part first studies Marx's unique perspective for human beings and his revolutionary change to the study of world history, then gives the deep explanation about the basic character of Marx's"world-historical individual". The paper considers"world-historical individual"has three basic characteristics: the individual is in the existing state of world history; he/she is the developing and historical individual; the individual has his/her value meaning. Through the concern for such an individual, the spiritual essence of Marx's"world-historical individual"discloses the inner consistency between the development of world history and the development and liberation of individual and contains the double transcendence( the transcendence of narrow regional individual and the spontaneous world-historical individual. At last, this part points out that Marx's world-historical individual is different from that of Kant, Hegel and Feuerbach's.The third part studies the contemporary character of Marx's word-historical individual. In the process of history changing into world history, world-historical individual discloses the influence of the development of human history in world history times on the development of individual, also displays the problems of human being's development in the process of world history. And these problems can not be solved in the other part of historical materialism. Therefore, the thought of Marx's world-historical individual has relative independent position in historical materialism, and it deepens and enriches the unity of social development and individual development in Marxist historical Materialism. Meanwhile, it provides guiding significance when people meet problems in life practice, and provides the practical path for the change into world-historical individual from narrow regional individual, and promotes the full development o human beings.