Lenin’s Contribution To Marxist Epistemology

Lenin not only inherited the philosophical thoughts of Marx and Engels comprehensively,but also answered the new epistemological issues raised at that time in the practice of Marxist philosophy guiding the proletarian revolution and dictatorship,socialist transformation and construction,on the basis of summing up the latest achievements of natural science and in the struggle against Marxism and dogmatism in Russia Marxist epistemology has advanced to a new stage of development.Among them,the main contributions to Marxist epistemology are as follows: first,Lenin deepened the epistemological significance of basic philosophical issues and put forward two fundamentally opposite epistemological lines.The second is to deepen the epistemological significance of dialectics and put forward the scientific conclusion that "dialectics is epistemology".Thirdly,the deepening of Marxist view of truth puts forward materialism and dialectics on the issue of truth.Fourth,the deepening of Marxist practice standard,put forward the certainty and uncertaint y of practice standard.Fifth,Lenin’s profound influence on Mao Zedong’s epistemology.This is mainly reflected in Mao Zedong’s "on practice" and "on Contradiction".The former book mainly expounds the unity of practice and cognition,which is the inheritance and development of Lenin’s practical view;the latter book mainly expounds the unity of universality and particularity of contradiction,which is the inheritance and in-depth development of Lenin’s dialectics and epistemology.It is of great theoretical and practical significance to study Lenin’s important contribution to Marxist Epistemology: theoretically speaking,summarizing Lenin’s Epistemological Thoughts is helpful to clarify the ideological development history of Marxist philosophy,accurately grasp Lenin’s important position in Marxist epistemology,and provide academic basis for the study of Marxist epistemology From the practical significance,on the one hand,it can provide ideological guidance and theoretical weapons for the proletarian party to enrich and develop Marxism;on the other hand,it can improve the content of Marxist philosophy teaching and enhance the effect of Marxist philosophy teaching.This paper makes a comprehensive and detailed summary of Lenin’s exertion and development of Marxist epistemology in two books: Materialism and empirical criticism and Philosophical NotesThe first part: introduction.This part mainly expounds the background,purpose and significance of Lenin’s contribution to Marxist epistemology,discusses the research status at home and abroad,as well as the key and difficult points,innovation and research methods.The second part: the theoretical basis and historical conditions of Lenin’s contribution to Marxist epistemology.This part mainly expounds the reasons for Lenin’s contribution to Marxist epistemology from two aspects of theoretical basis and historical conditions: in terms of theoretical basis,Lenin’s contribution to Marxist epistemology is the result of Lenin’s adherence to and development of Marxism on the one hand,and Lenin’s critical inheritance of Hegel’s dialectics on the other hand;in terms of historical conditions,Lenin’s contribution to Marxist epistemology is the result of Lenin’s adherence to and development of Marxism on the other hand On the other hand,Lenin’s contribution to Marxist epistemology is the result of Lenin’s criticism of Russian Marxism,summing up the valuable experience of Russian revolutionary struggle and scientific analysis of the latest achievements of natural science.The third part: the main performance of Lenin’s contribution to Marxist epistemology.This part expounds the main performance of Lenin’s contribution to Marxist epistemology from two aspects.On the one hand,it discusses in detail Lenin’s Enrichment and development of Marx and Engels’ s epistemological thought,and respectively discusses Lenin’s deepening of the basic philosophical problems,the epistemological significance of dialectics,the Marxist view of truth,and the Marxist practice standard from the epistemological height;on the other hand,it expounds Lenin’s deepening of Marxist epistemological thought This paper discusses Lenin’s profound influence on Mao Zedong’s epistemological thought,which is mainly reflected in the basic thought of Mao Zedong’s "theory of practice" and "theory of contradiction".The fourth part is the significance of deepening the study of Lenin’s contribution to Marxist epistemology.This part mainly expounds Lenin’s important position in the development of Marxist epistemology,and Lenin’s contribution provides the basic experience for the Communist Party of China to enrich and develop Marxism,and helps to improve the teaching content of Marxist philosophy and enhance the teaching effect of Marxist philosophy.