Philosophical Analysis On Deng Xiaoping’s Pragmatic Thought

Today, technological rationality expands and our world becomes more fickle. To face thevarious problems and dilemmas needed to be solved in the modernization of our country, thespirit of pragmatism needs carrying forward urgently and wins its popularity in the wholesociety. Deng Xiaoping is famed for his being pragmatic. His theories and practices show thedown-to-earth and practical pragmatic spirit and character, which is a valuable spiritualwealth and deserved to be followed. Philosophy is expert at grasping the whole object.Analyzing Deng Xiaoping’s pragmatic thought from the height of philosophy will help tograsp its essence and clarify its values.Deng Xiaoping’s pragmatic thought has profound origins. Chinese traditional thoughts oflearning for governing and supplying pursuits pragmatism, negates imaginary and appetitesfor bard work. This provides the possibility for Deng Xiaoping pragmatic thought. Marxismpractice view deeply affects Deng Xiaoping, constituting theoretical support behind histhoughts. He specific situation formed in specific history provides the conditions for him todisplay his talents, and also becomes the root for him to pragmatic.Pragmatic is to seek truth from facts. Namely practice from the reality, combine theorywith practice having a definite object in view, and test results with practice as standard.Pragmatism is not equal to pragmatism. They have the essential differences in the theoreticalbasis, the values and the inspection standards. The essence of Deng Xiaoping’s pragmaticthought mainly displays in five aspects: taking innovation as the essence, to emancipate themind as a starting point, to solve the problem of China as aim, to serve the people as appeal,showing theoretical character of self-confidence and consciousness.The philosophical essence of Deng Xiaoping’s pragmatic thought deploys mainly fromfour dimensions：based on practice, clarifying Deng Xiaoping’s innovation practice thoughtwhich has obvious features of the time and combined Marxist theory with the practice ofChina；based on epistemology, revealing emancipating the mind is the premise of pursuing"is" from the "new facts". Dialectical negation is the inherent logic of the emancipation of themind；based on methodology, clarifying Deng Xiaoping solving the problems of China withdialectical thinking methods and "general" methods and Adhering to the concrete analysis ofconcrete problems, the organic unity of "process" and "structure"；based on axiology, DengXiaoping calls for human subjectivity, establishes "people-oriented" outlook, appeals to thepeople’s freedom and comprehensive development. All these reveal Marxism humanisticview. Deng Xiaoping’s pragmatism thought not only provides us a new direction to understandMarxism in China, but also gives us beneficial enlightenments. On one hand, only by beingpragmatic can self-confidence be achieved. Pragmatism is the basis of self-confidence. On theother hand, only pragmatism can make us to face problems. Then we can really solve theproblems and crack difficult problems in contemporary China.