The Study On Marx's View Of Freedom

For Marx,"freedom" has never been a trendy noun that exists only in modern society,because his inquiry about "freedom" has never stopped.In Marx's Doctoral Thesis,he concluded that self-consciousness originated from Atomic Skew Theory of Epicurean.In his old age,Marx focused on the realistic economic life and criticized the loss of freedom of laborer under the capitalist system.Marx's thoughts about freedom and liberation of human have go through a logical process in which his thoughts from abstraction to reality.Marx realized the historic transformation of the thought of free fundamentally.Marx's concept of freedom is centered on human's self-realization,and historical materialism is the theoretical cornerstone of freedom.It is the organic unity of materialism and dialectics.Basing on practice,Marx explored the issue of freedom in human's real life,realized the change of freedom from ideality to reality,and revealed the social reality of freedom.This article consists of five parts,which are developed according to the following logical structures.The introductory part expounds the reasons and significance of choosing Marx's concept of freedom,review about relevant domestic and foreign literature,and related research methods.The first chapter aims to clarify the preconditions for the emergence of Marx's concept of freedom.Marx take German classical philosophy which represented by Kant and Hegel as the premise of his intellectual history.While affirming Kant and Hegel's philosophy breaks religious alienation,he criticized their thoughts of freedom as freedom of illusion.On this basis,Marx constantly seeks real foundations and conditions to realize the freedom,Marx also firmly takes "self-realization" as the core of his thoughts.The second chapter expounds the intrinsic connection between Marx's concept of freedom and historical materialism.The discussion of Atomic Skew Theory of Epicurus in Marx's thesis has already contained the bud of freedom.Since the "Rheinische Zeitung",Marx's concept of freedom has begun to face the real world,and has constantly realized its own internal transcendence and transformation."The German Ideology" marks the establishment of Marx's historical materialism and has become a solid theoretical cornerstone for the development of his concept of freedom.The third chapter reveals the critique of capitalist material freedom realized by Marx's concept of freedom.The capitalist mode of production,while causing the rapid development of large industries,has also produced its own grave-digger,the proletariat.Marx turned to economic life and explored economic issues in order to form new and more specific ideas of freedom.The fourth chapter returns to the fundamental problem of Marx's concept of freedom.That is,the free development of everyone is the prerequisite for the free development of all people.Marx's Three Historical Forms of Human' Society reveals the concept of freedom as a historical process,and the stage of freedom of everyone means the realization of comprehensive freedom.At the same time,the formation and development of Marx's concept of freedom has profound epochal significance.Marx's concept of freedom reveals that freedom is the essence that is constantly being realized in the process of human practice.The formation of Marx's concept of freedom answers the problems of his time and provides a solid theoretical support for the proletarian movement and the development of communism.Freedom always represents the future value pursuit of human beings.Through in-depth study of Marx's concept of freedom,we can respond to the difficulties and challenges of modern western philosophy to Marx's concept of freedom and get a new understanding of "freedom".At the same time,Marx's concept of freedom has certain enlightenment on the survival and development of human beings.