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Marx's Concept Of Natural Law And Its Contemporary Value

Posted on:2007-03-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:G D PanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206360185969636Subject:Legal theory
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The old philosophies tend to interpret the world with principles and ideas, while Marx tends to explains principles and ideas with the objective world. Traditional natural laws tend to explain real individuals with reasons, while Marx tends to explain reasons with real individuals. The core values of Marx's concept of natural law lie in Freedom, equality and the happiness, liberation and development of human-beings. And Marx's concept of natural law was explicitly highlighted by his views of freedom and humanity. In a word, not only should humans lead a consistent life with the nature, they should also be all along the master of it; not only should real individuals lead a consistent life with the community, they should also be all along the master of their self. According to Marx's concepts and ways, the concepts of natural law are the distillations of human senses, carrying both the senses of rational and irrational; the socialization forms of natural law appear as the morals; and that positive laws, which could be viewed as the objectified forms of natural law, were the unitary, definitive, authoritative and formal explanations of natural law by authorities; the reality of natural law is associated with its revolutionary essence. At the age of reform, "individual standard" must be set up instead of "collective standard". It means that we should protect and develop individual rights in the field of legislation, jurisdiction, administration of law and being in power. We should try every effort to solve the problems of real individuals, help achieving their values of life, and make the law the highest power to protect, develop and accomplish them. At the mean time of carrying out economic reform, accomplish a Marxism realistic...
Keywords/Search Tags:Marx, natural law, real individuals, practice, human nature, revolution
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