The Research Of Engels’ Marriage And Family Values

Marriage and family,which people never stop to learn is a timeless topic.Nowadays,under the effect of economic globalization,the traditional Chinese concept of marriage and family has received the unprecedented impact and new problems appears.The family is the cornerstone of society.The happiness of the family is the foundation of social harmony and stability.Historically,there have been a lot of scholars from such as history,philosophy,anthropology,sociology and so on different angles doing some research in the field of marriage and family,but one of the most influential and representative should be Engels’ marriage and family values.The paper tries to put forward some thinking which is worth considering in contemporary China by studying the origin and the value of Engels’ points on marriage and family.Based on overcoming the idealism conception of Hegel and Morgan,Engels scientifically and systematically summarized a set of complete system of marriage and family.Take the Engels’ book The Origin of the Family,Private Property and the State as the main reference,the paper analyzes the changes of marriage and family in the long history and Engels’ forecast about it.In addition,the paper tries to discuss his ideas by dividing them into two aspects of morals and legislation: In terms of moral,the marriage should be based on love,and they should have the common ideal and faith;In terms of legislation,the couple should be faithful in marriage and monogamous relationships on the basis of freedom and equality.Meanwhile,the family members should fulfill their different responsibility and obligation.From the perspective of historical materialism,Engels thinks the requirements of marriage and family in the aspect of morals and legislation is not invariable,but specific,historical and it will be adjusted constantly with the development of the society.Finally,combining with the problems in the transition period of China’s marriage and family,the paper tries to improve the influences and values of Engels’ ideas in the construction of morality and law.It emphasizes that his ideas not only provides a rich source of theory when solving the problems but also guiding us to construct the harmonious family and harmonious society.