New Discovery Of Marxist Philosophy In The Information Age

The late20th century, as the popularity of modern technology, such as computertechnology, network communications technology, human society has undergone veryprofound changes, the emergence and application of information technologyprovides Marxist philosophy provided a wealth of materials and fertile soil, it alsoprovides a good opportunity and important source to innovate and expand.Information society is human social development's milestone after agriculturalsociety and industrial society. All fields of human subsistence are based on acquiring,processing, transferring and distributing information. Therefore, it's necessary to maketheoretic researches on philosophical problem caused by information technology andinformatization. The definition of information, namely, the philosophical essence ofinformation, should be first considered. This paper reveals the philosophical essence ofinformation that is objective, substaintial and universal through the research on thedialectical relation between information and substance as well as energy and enrichesMarxist philosophy about ontology of substantial attribute.With the development and widely application of information technology, thewhole practical activities in human society present the character of informatization,which human cognitive mode also turns to. Information itself has become the latestresearch object. Accordingly, cognitive subject has developed into compound subject–"people-computer-network" from single human subject. Besides realistic object,cognitive object also adds virtual object processed by computer and network.Cognitive medium even more adds information element. The change of humancognitive mode is the time connotation which information age endows humancognitive activity with. It provides epistemology of Marxist philosophy with abundantmaterial.Under the influence of information technology and information society, Marxisttraditional view of practice is also faced with some big problems. First, the authorexpounds the informatization's characteristic of practice and points out that it is newcharacteristic that human practical activities present under the high-tech of new timebackground. Next, the development and innovation of Marxist traditional view ofpractice is discussed and the value of practical activities under the information technology background is generalized. Finally, an important issue of turn of value isput forward. The author sticks to the principle that logic accords with history duringwriting the paper, from history to reality, from phenomenon to essence, from ontologyto epistemology and practical theory, emphasizing that dialectical materialism shouldbe stuck to and Marxist philosophy should be endowed with the era content.This paper use some approaches, such as the combination of reading the literatureand the reality, the summary, the combination of multi-disciplinary. It adheres to theprinciple of unity of logic and history, from ontology to epistemology and practicetheory, it emphasizes that we should adhere to the basic principles of dialecticalmaterialism, but also to give the contents of the era of Marxist philosophy in theinformation age.