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On Marx "alienated Labor" Concept And Its Transport Thinking Way

Posted on:2007-04-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C Z SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:2209360185482518Subject:Marxist philosophy
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The concept of "Alienated Labor" in "Economics and Philosophy Manuscripts In 1844" was of great significance in Marx's philosophy. It was inevitable outcome of Karl Marx's critical adoption and integration to German Classical Philosophy especially to Hegel's philosophy, Feuerbach's philosophy and the outstanding achievements of Classical Politics Economics with his characteristic of Practice Materialism.The content of "Alienated labor" determined its applicable subject, which was the labor under the system of capitalist private ownership. Marx seemed to arrive at a paradoxical conclusion on the relationship between the "Alienated labor" and private property. On the one hand he said that private property was based on "Alienated labor"; On the other hand, he said it was the consequences of "Alienated labor". In fact, in the analysis of the relationship between them, Marx adopted two kinds of logics that were humanism logics and the logics of "Starting From Economical Reality". Marx had no clear answer to what "Alienated labor" originated from, but he hinted at the solution, mat was, such alienation was based on the development of human essence. Logically speaking, Alienated Labor originated from the dual nature of human existence; Historically speaking, it originated from diversion of labor and the development of exchange. Thus the logical base of sublating of alienated labor was on the development and the realization of the nature of human being; the real way of sublating alienated labor was that the old diversion of labor would be abolished, the private property would be eliminated and Communism would be realized in the end.Marx was enlightened deeply by the method of Hegel's phenomenology and Feuerbach's humanism. The thinking method of his "Alienated labor" concept was in a large part a ingenious combination of the two. Marx discussed human beings and their nature from the perspective of ontology, and he assumed that human beings had the character of representing their essence in phenomenon and eliminating their alienated patterns so as to arrive at the identity of their phenomenon and their essence. Thus, the nature of human beings could be made clear. And Negative Dialectics was the representing pattern of the fulfillment of human being nature. This was the method of Marx's phenomenology of human existence. The fundamental difference between the method of Hegel's phenomenology and Marx's lay in the replacement of the subject of dialectical movement of "Absolute idea " in Hegel's philosophy by perceptible human who had been going in for perceptible activities in Marx's. For Marx the profound enlightenment by Feuerbach's Humanism lay in his owning the object to the subject He came to a conclusion that private property and money were the representing patterns of human existence. Therefore, Marx's thinking about "Alienated labor" was in the state of "the human is present". The substantial difference between Marx's humanism and Feuerbach's was that the human in Marx's philosophy was social while in Feuerbach's was abstract. In Marx's view, the real way of sublating alienation was to eliminate the old diversion of labor and private property, and to realize Communism, by which the free and conscious labor, not founded on what was called "love religion ", will come true,The concept of "Alienated labor" in "Manuscript" and its thinking method highlighted the characteristic of Marx's philosophical perspective. The empirical economics research within the philosophical framework bred Marx's perspective to think into the reality of human existence —Material Production. The concept of "Alienated labor" was undoubtedly of great importance in Marx's philosophy, though it is not a mature one.
Keywords/Search Tags:Marx, Alienated labor, The method of thinking, Hegel's phenomenology, Feuerbach's humanism, The phenomenology of the human existence
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