On A "virtual" And The Reality Of The Relationship

Virtual has caused much debate in the field of philosophy, which results in the appearance of virtual philosophy. At present, scholars study virtual from many philosophical perspectives, such as from the relationship between virtual and the developing manner of human society, the relationship between virtual and practice, and so on. This article points out that the basic and key question of virtual philosophy is the relationship between virtual and reality, which decides the other questions of virtual philosophy and means much to the contemporary development of Marxism philosophy as well.This article can be divided into three parts. In the first part, it summarizes the research on virtual, and points out that basic and key question is the relationship between virtual and reality.In the second part, this article makes ontological analyses on the relationship between virtual and reality, that is, the relationship between virtual world and real world. It firstly introduces virtual reality technology's conception and history, and then points out that the real world is the base and precondition of virtual world which reflects and transcends the real world. Virtual world is part of and enriches the real world, but it cannot take the place of the real world.The third part of this article recites the characters of virtual practice in brief. And based on the second part's results, it discusses the relationship between virtual practice and real practice, and explains the positive values of the virtual practice.