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The Human Nature View Of Historicism

Posted on:2013-04-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J TianFull Text:PDF
GTID:2246330371980091Subject:Basic principles of Marxism
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Marxism’s understanding of metaphysics from the Marxist theory on the traditionalbasis of the Anglo-American empiricism and clarify Marx’s historicismmethodological principle from the angle of historical method of analyzing moralrather than that of moral method of analyzing history. Sayers believes that both sidesderived from the Analytical Marxism insist on the thinking way of dichotomy, namelypolar oppositing, which is a common analytic-philosophy "assumption". Any way ofthinking beyond the polar-oppositing analytical philosophy should date back toMarx’s method of historicism. The method of so-called historicism, neither simplypromises a widespread absolute value standard of moral politics, which’s independentfrom history, nor doesn’t accept an absolute standard, but put it into the history. Thenon-historic character of analytical Marxism is that moral standards are independentand abstract rather than are analyzed in the historical comparisons, or the progressivepure relativism has never been recognized fundamentally. The Marxist historicisminsists that history is a combination of continuous processes and non-continuous ones.The continuity of history embodied in the quantitative process of social history;however the discontinuity is reflected in the qualitative process of the social history.Sayers saw the inheritance of the Marxist-historicist method of Hegelian dialecticsfrom a deeper level through the analysis of historical process and historicalphenomenon. He has repeatedly stressed that Marx’s historical thought containsHegel’s dialectical ideology in his books. Marx did not derive the understanding ofhistory from a common humanity. He discourses humanity, the various needs ofhuman nature, and human rationality from a historical perspective. If we consider human development as a kind of history, then humanity is the product of the historicaldevelopment. Social activities and production activities promote the development ofhumanity, and they also result in the generation of a new way to product. Marxismalso contains naturalistic as a historical situation. It looks the moral as a social andhistorical phenomenon, and wants to establish the moral values and political view onthe basis of this understanding. He questioned for a kind of socialist political andmoral value simply as a thinking independent of the social and historical theory ofsubjective preference. Marxism’s main purpose is to analyze and understand the socialvalue of the moral values, and not simply to criticize and to resolve these moral valuesand social values. This paper distinguishes Potential reality view of human naturefrom Marx’s view of human nature and utilitarian, thus clarifying the Marxist sense of"common humanity". Marx believed that human nature can not beyond the history ofethical standards. When it comes to humanity and human, we should know, theseconcepts are built on the basis of the creation and development of contemporarycapitalism and the industrial age, social relations, and demand. While expounding theview of human nature of Marx’s historicism systemically, we should see, there is noabsolute and universal standard, no universally valid. It means, Marx believed that theultimate ideal of human moral development is a comprehensive development ofhuman. The development of humanity is the real wealth of human. Therefore,communism is the society in which the ability of individual gets all-rounddevelopment.
Keywords/Search Tags:Marx’shistoricism, View of human nature
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