Comparative Analysis On The View Of Nature Of Marx And Whitehead

Both the view of nature of Marx and Whitehead contain rich contents,and have deep understandings about the nature.It can provide some referential theory for ecological civilization construction in our country through the comparative analysis on the view of nature of Marx and Whitehead.First,the view of nature of Marx has a sound scientific basics and theory sources.It experienced about embryo,formation and development such three periods.It is established on the basis of the "Three big discovery" in the 19 th century and the view of nature of Hegel and Feuerbach.The main content is that it illustrates the unique definition of nature concept,the nature is the inorganic body of human,the nature is the humanized nature.The relationship between human and nature is the objective relationship between based on social practice,which means nature is always related to human and human always have inherent relationship with nature.The relationship between nature and social history appearance that the nature is generated in the social history,social history is the history which is generated in the practice of understanding and reforming nature,nature and social history is a dialectical unity.The fundamental characteristic of the view of nature Marx is practicality,it is on the basis of practical materialism,and practicality is throughout the whole view of nature of Marx,so it makes apart from the past every view of nature.Second,the view of nature of Whitehead is established on the basis of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics in the 20 th century and the view of nature of ancient Greece and modern western philosophy.The main content is that it illustrates the criticism of modern mechanical materialism view of nature,especially criticize the the“dualism of nature”,“simple location”,nature without historical and process,dichotomy of fact and value.It points out that the nature is a organic whole,nature is composed of events,nature is the eternal into the process,nature itself is valuable.The fundamental feature points out that creative is the total phase of all total phase,is the basic characteristic of nature,is the fundamental motivation of nature.Overall,the view of nature of Marx shows the obvious social,historic,connecting and developmental,while the view of nature of Whitehead shows the obvious organic,process,relational,and creative advance.There are many ideas in common,at the same time,there are also some differences.the view of nature of Marx is based on the practical materialism,emphasizes the unity of human andnature and society,while the view of nature of Whitehead is based on the process realism with understanding nature in the ontological sense,and not talk about the relationship between nature and society.Finally,by comparing the view of nature,in the theoretical sense,it can help us to understand the important position of the view of nature of Marx in Marxist philosophy,to enrich and develop Marxism.In the practical sense,it gives us a lot of referential theory for ecological civilization construction in our country.