An Analysis Of Marx And Engels' Moral Outlook

Marx and Engels contribute their whole life to a great proletarian revolutionary cause,for the pursuit of the liberation of all mankind,and they blink with great moral glory.Although the study of moral values don't form a system of written works,their papers reflect the important content of moral everywhere.Marx's moral values closely were associated with the practice of the proletarian revolution,which embodied Marx strongly criticizing the ultimate goal of bourgeois exploitation and the ultimate aim of the proletarian revolution.Although after hundred years of historical development and transformation of time and space,the morality of Marx still had important guiding significance to contemporary moral construction.Based on Marx's maintenance moral utilitarianism of Claude Adrien Helvetius,analysing the source of morality theory as the starting point of Marx and Engels,Claude Adrien Helvetius maintain assertion that the pursuit of personal interests is the foundation of morality and the end-result,public interest is the standard of moral or virtue.Then he analyzed the theory of Kant's moral self-discipline and Bentham's theory of moral heteronomy,Marx's moral philosophy is to analyze and criticize of Kant's moral philosophy,aiming at Kant's abstract moral main body,he corrected the rationality of transcendental moral law,for all mankind above classes position critique of the moral goal of moral self-discipline,under the premise of direct reality,they established the moral ideal of marxism.If Kant is the outstanding representative of the motivation theory,his theory of motivation is the logical conclusion of the theory of moral self-discipline.Bentham,by contrast,on the premise of the theory of moral heteronomy and directly formed the utilitarian principle lead effect theory point of view,became the effect of the outstanding representatives.They introduced the Hegel's "Law Philosophy Principle " in the definition of philosophy,morality is subjective will of the law,moral behavior has three links.Feuerbach embarked from the "abstract" advocacy "the religion of love",Engels said when Feuerbach in the research of religion and ethics exposed the essence of his idealism.The main part of the paper third chapter is the interpretation of Marx and Engels morality: moral's category are historical,released.Understanding Marx moral need to set up under the category of historical materialism,it is the embodiment of the realistic interests contradiction,is the moral criticism,the goal is to realize the liberation of mankind.Moral has historic materialism,class character,developmental features.Previousmoral have plenty of idealism,Marx's morality essence is the product of social relations,especially economic relations.At the same time,they are against class,eternal moral,advocated the development progress of morality.Moral criticism included religion,feudal society's ethics and morality of capitalism.To reveal their religious essence as the breakthrough point,they criticized in the feudal society of humanitarian moral and false moral of succession in the capitalist society.Extracted from Marx's classic works about the realization of the communist society is the moral ideal and the liberation of all mankind,and finally carry out to moral practice,referred to in the Critique of the Gotha Program "step action is more than a dozen program" is the practice of humanitarian revolutionary practice.Grasping and understanding the inevitable requirement of historical materialism fully need demand the study of Marx and Engels moral thought,under the condition of developing socialist market economy,the correct understanding of ethical issues is conducive to a reasonable comprehensive evaluation to the current situation of the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics,at the same time,for our country socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics indicate the moral goal,sent to provide development and optimization of path,for the construction of socialist harmonious society and deal with the contemporary Chinese social moral "landslide" phenomenon is of great significance,guiding the construction of Chinese socialist core value system has important practical significance.Based on this,Marx and Engels of moral thought research has dual significance and practical significance.