Engels' Ideological Approach To Grasp The Contradiction Between "The Expected And The Unexpected"

The contradiction between "the expected and the unexpected" is a deep-seated problem in Engels's theory of historical resultant forces.On this issue,Engels's main intention is not to demonstrate that human history has objective laws that are not subject to the will of man,as conventional wisdom would have it,but lies in revealing the human history development and its regularity also can not depart from the "entanglement"between the human will and the goal for a moment.With this as the starting point,this paper attempts to make some preliminary discussions around the origin of the contradiction between "the expected and the unexpected",the root cause of the contradiction between "the expected and the unexpected",and the possible path to historical "anticipation",in order to advance the further research on this issue.In addition to the introduction,this paper consists of three parts.The first part of the article mainly discusses the origin of the contradiction between" the expected and the unexpected ".In his later years,Engels faced the challenges of his time.The contradiction between "the expected and the unexpected" was put forward by Engels in response to the criticism and attack of the bourgeois scholars,and to solve the perplexity of the understanding of young scholars such as Bloch.At the same time,this part also makes a brief description and analysis on the literature basis,as well as several misinterpretations and shortcomings of the academic circle.The second part starts with the differences between human history and natural history and the unique characteristics of human history,and reveals the origin of the contradiction between "the expected and the unexpected".On the basis of this,this paper analyzes the rationality and limitation of the two traditional ways of solving the problem of the relationship between the law of history and man's conscious activity,and expounds the establishment and rationality of Engels's practical way of thinking.The third part focuses on the core issue of how to approach the historical "anticipation",and focuses on Engels's dialectical grasp of the contradiction between "the expected and the unexpected".That is,to grasp the dialectical relationship between "the expected unexpected" and "the unexpected expected" from the dual perspectives of big space vision and long-term consciousness.Finally,it summarizes some important enlightenment from Engels's thought of"contradiction",in order to show the theoretical and practical significance of this thought.