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Critique On Popper's Historical Indetermination

Posted on:2012-10-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P P GongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330368475129Subject:Marxist philosophy
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Is there a rule to follow of social development? Can we predict the trend of society? There are two contrary viewpoints to this problem: one is historical determination and the other is historical indetermination. Marx's historical materialism advocate historical determination. Of course, Marx's historical determinism isn't mechanical determinism or historical fatalism , But history dialectical determinism. An enormous contribution of Marx is founded the historical materialism, which has reveals the objective law of development of human history scientificly and Specifies the inevitability that capitalism would be replaced by socialist,thus provide The proletariat liberation movement with theoretical guide and confidence and encourage to fight for victory. However this theory has suffered various criticise and blame since its birth. Popper's historical undetermination is one of the theories that criticize Marx's history determinism. However, this criticism is based on misreading to Marx history determinism,thus the theory that support it is unreliable .Therefore , response to popper's challenge , clarify his misreading to history determinism and criticize popper's main historical viewpoint under the guidance of marxism,is not only has great theoretical significance to deepen the understanding of marxism history determinism and clarify various theoretical quarrels,but also has important practical significance to us to insist on the basic principle of marxism,confirm in socialist belief and construct on socialism with confidence.
Keywords/Search Tags:history dialectical determinism, history mechanical determinism, historical determinism, communism
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