Marx And Sartre

Throughout human history, that the study of philosophy is the essence of man is unable to avoid the problem, the philosophers of ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign have different understanding of the nature of the problem, Marx and Sartre lived in different historical stages of the life, the understanding of the essence of man is also different. Marx discusses the person’s mind of "class nature" in his early works "economic and philosophical manuscripts of 1844", he said: "a kind of all of the characteristics, class characteristics lies in the nature of life activity, and the characteristics of category is free of conscious activities." In "About the outline of feuerbach", he said: "the essence of man is not single person inherent abstraction, in reality, it is the sum of all social relations." In “German ideology”, he claims that need is the essence of man; From which we can see that Marx about the essence of man is not static, but a progressive transformation, gradually improve the process of his thought on the essence of man led to a revolutionary change in philosophical history, human study found the correct ways and means; And, as a representative of French existentialist,Jean-Paul Sartre from the perspective of existentialism, "I think in front of the reflection" as the starting point of the philosophical ontology, illustrates the idea of "existence precedes essence", this paper discusses the human essence is due to the free choice of self decision thought, established a very different from Marx’s humanism.In the comparison of the two, we found that Marx and Sartre on the essence of human thought, although with emphasis on the humanity and certainly no innate common people’s subjective initiative has had a similar view, but in the human nature on the starting point and the understanding of subjective initiative and the opposite, what is the nature of thought and is fundamentally different. Comparing the two ideas similarities and differences, therefore, is not only beneficial to our correct evaluation theory of both views, can also help us have a correct understanding of the essence of man is to find the scientific method.This article attempts through the comparison between Marx and Sartre two philosophy of humanistic thought, so as to achieve the understanding of the nature of the new to people. The full text is divided into four parts, the first part from the analysis of the "the essence of man" the theory origin of formation, on the source of Marx and Sartre compared; The second part focuses on the specific content of the two "the essence of man", in view of two thoughts of different schools of thought contend in analysis; The third part will focus on the thought of whole comparison, from the thoughts of Marx and Sartre and point to the thorough analysis, seeking common ground while putting aside differences; Finally, the fourth part of the article, as a summary, Marx and Sartre’s thoughts make a holistic review, strive for in terms of understanding the essence of "human" to a new height.