The Union Of Free People-from Kant To Marx

Immamarizenuel Kant, the most important philosopher in the west, whosephilosophy is of great significance for the future. His theory of freedom is based ona lot of previous philosophers’ conclusions. Kent’s "dogmatism delusion" was brokenby Hume’s agnosticism which was surpassed by the Kent’s theory. And Rousseau’ssocial contract theory made Kant realize that if people want to get freedom, they mustmake an alliance and carry out follow the certain conventions. Finally, Humboldt putforward the importance of state and related political thinking to the country and nation,he thought that country’s mission was to protect the freedom of the people. Through aseries of deals, he is to be the first person to propose the idea of free people which issimilar to Kant’s freedom thought, the freedom of the Humboldt idea provides helpfor Kant’s free association. Accepting and transcending others’ theories of freedom,Kant rethought and finished his own theory and then advance the theory about thetranscendental freedom, practical sense of freedom and liberty as well as gave thesolution. the union of free people in moral sense. Though not Kant proposed theconcept of, but began to Kant, people have changed the view of freedom, and Kantthe free system is intended to illustrate the development to the final will be in a form,namely the union of free people. At last, people get the real freedom in the moralworld. Kant system analyzed what is freedom and pointed out the ways to realizefreedom, provided an important theoretical guidance for later philosophers. ButKant’s freedom is belong to another world, our reality can’t have the absolute freedom,freedom is relative. Marx, as one of the most influential philosophers in modern, isunder the influence of Kant’s freedom theory, and combined fichte and Hegel’s theoryof freedom idea, eventually form his own idea. Marx think freedom must be thepremise of labor, and through the unity of practice and labor and practicing asfreedom intermediary then achieve freedom. Marx’s freedom theory inherited andtranscended the theory of Kant’s freedom, finally formed his own freedom theorysystem. First of all, Marx admitted that the ultimate aim of philosophy was the peoplewho pursued the freedom and inherited Kant’s freedom and thought that the sense oforientation of human must be the unite of people. However, Marx’s criticized Kant’stwo yuan, and took the historical materialism as the starting point to redefine theKantian thing-in-itself. Marx’s criticized Kant’s moral practice but analyzed the development of the free from the labor practicing. And Marx didn’t think freedomcan’t be reached in reality people.He focused on real life and went through a certainway to get free in the end.