Marx’s Concept Of Happiness On His Human Theory And Its Contemporary Values

Happiness is the human perpetual pursuit at all times and in all countries.To pursue happiness is the human nature and conducts all human behaviors and goals.What is happiness?For this happiness’s most basic problem,every person has his own answer.According to the explanation and answer to this problem,the concepts about happiness can mainly be classified into four kinds,The Concept of Happiness of Rationalism、The Concept of Happiness of Sensationalism、The Concept of Happiness of Utilitarianism and The Middle Ages Christian Concept of Happiness.Each of them has some deficiencies and shortcomings in its understanding of happiness.Marx’s views on happiness are truly scientific and are based on the real world and the real man.Human nature is free and conscious activity.Need is the intrinsic motivation for pursuing happiness.And practice is the only way to pursue happiness.People meet their own constantly updated and developmental need、enrich and develop their own nature、gain freedom and happiness by practicing.The freedom of the human is the basic guarantee for happiness.The development of human is the fundamental pursuit for Marx’s concept of happiness.The communist society is the most perfect state for Marx’s concept of happiness.In today’s society,people are being in the dilemma of alienation of happiness.Hedonism、money worship and ultra-individualism are increasingly becoming a social climate.Happiness which people should have possessed is being replaced by unhappiness.Marx’s concept of happiness has important contemporary values for us to pursue happiness and to build harmonious socialist society.