A Comparative Study Of Marx And Simmel’s Currency Philosophy

The emergence of the currency changes the barter model of social exchange and liberates the exchange behavior of individuals of a single.As it provides more possibilities of free choice to buy and sell goods,the currency greatly promote the development of commodity economy and the links between social members and make the social relationship between people closer.However,the money which created by humanity for the purpose of developing their society has caused many problems to people’s life at the same time when promotes the economic development.n commodity economy society,people blindly pursue the appreciation of currency and overlook the survival significance as the main body.As a result,people forget the original purpose of life,social relations between people are increasingly alienated,and the brilliance of humanity is covered by the purpose of material.Money successfully trespasses to umanity and become the ultimate purpose of life form a tool.As it stands proudly in the top of the world,worshipped as a god,humanity has become a kind of existence which constantly pursues the appreciation of money.Marx and Simmel worried about the universal survival predicament of humanity that economic money above the main body,and they respectively rethought the function and the negative influence of money from different aspect,and it provides an important theory basis for us to understand money.Despite both of their currency philosophy are a kind of philosophy care for human survival,there exists many differences in specific discourse.Based on text study,this thesis expounds the main content of Marx and Simmel’s thoughts of money philosophy in detail on the basis of deeply understand their meaning,and make every effort to get a comprehensive and clear learning about the two monetary philosophy thoughts.When understand the main idea of the same destination of their monetary philosophy,we should find the different methods between the two philosophical thoughts.There are different opinions when people study on a same thing because of different research perspectives,and the countermeasures they proposed are different as well.The thoughts of Marx and Simmel’s money philosophy start from different research starting point,and they concluded different causes of the alienation of human existence,and it leads they to come up with different solutions.Marx thought that it should realize the revolution of the society through reforming the reality production relations,while Simmel was sucked in a dilemma when trying to change the plight of human’s existence,but both of their philosophy thought reflect the deep concern of human existence.Marx and Simmel’s thought of money philosophy not only have a significant impact in their era,but still shining their light in contemporary time.Nowadays it has a significant meaning for us to build correct economic values and realize each person’s full scale development simultaneously during the development of social economy.