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From The Perspective Of Complexity Of Social And Historical Development

Posted on:2016-03-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y P LuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330452966368Subject:Marxist philosophy
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In1890, Engels advanced the historical force theory about the development process ofsociety and history. The parallelogram law in this theory is to generalize how people’s will andpower create history. At that time, this theory defended the Marx’s historical materialismeffectively, Also, it emphasized the importance of economy and further explained the role ofeconomic basis and superstructure in promoting the social and historical development process. Itdeveloped and improved the theory of historical materialism. Today, Engels’ the historical forcetheory still has important guiding significance on the development of socialist theory and practicein our country.However, along with the development of society and history, traditional society what didn’thighlight social complexity now has been evident in the show in front of people. And the historicalforce theory advanced by Engels cannot explain every phenomenon. Others, there is one certainprinciple in the back of the phenomenon which we usually consider as accidental phenomenon. Atthe same time, with the progress of scientific theory, especially the rise and development ofcomplexity science, we use new methods to examine the social field, which provide morereflection and supplement on the ideas of the historical force theory.Complexity Science is a new stage of system science development. With the rise of this newtheory in1980s, it has been increasingly applied to natural science, philosophy, humanities andsocial science and other fields. The main performance of complexity science in the field of socialhistory, is to consider society is constituted by human, organization network and their relationsand interdependence. Its main manifestation is the nonlinear interaction. It explains that only thesum of the parts within the system rather than the behavior of the system as a whole will be got ifall the parts of the system were combined. So there is a system as a whole no longer the relationship between the sum of the parts. The way to perform the behavior collection of thesystem is Emergence. At the same time, chaos is also one of the research frontiers and hot spots innonlinear dynamics of complexity science. Chaos phenomenon is not disorderly, but containsendless internal gradation with "self-similarity". It seems no rules, but in fact it is nondeterminacyof deterministic dynamic system. It is an explanation of random movements in the process ofsociety and history development.This paper reflects the historical force theory by using the perspective of complexity science.First, it introduces the main content of the theory, analyzes the significance and limitations. Thenit explains the complexity of the human society, from the complexity between individual toindividual interaction, to the complexity of social groups composed of individuals, and concludesthe complexity of society as a whole.At last, this paper analyzes the complexity performance of the process of social and historicaldevelopment, and describes the social and historical development dynamic pattern by using fractal,chaos, synergy and emergence theories.
Keywords/Search Tags:history force theory, complexity, chaos, emergence
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