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Marx’s View of the Practical Happiness and It’s Contemporary Significance

Author: LiuLingLing
Tutor: ZhouZhiShan
School: Zhejiang Normal University
Course: The basic principles of Marxism
Keywords: Practice Life Alienation Full Development Happiness
CLC: A811
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

Happiness is the universal pursuit in the world of human, the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of hope, the pursuit of future and the pursuit of perfection. On the view of western history, people, both philosophers in ancient Greece, or philosophers in the medieval, and thinkers in the renaissance, had taken happiness as the supreme goal in their world. In traditional culture of China, ideas such as "stateless world", "statecraft list", and "well-off family" are happy dreams which people look forward to, "wu fu" thought, coming down from generation to generation, is the successful state of life persuaded by normal people. For thousands of years, society justice, equality and freedom, peaceful and happy life, and harmonious development are always goals which tirelessly persuaded by human. Happiness is based on a kind of human nature, In the history, there is varied discussion of happiness among the philosophers, Marx has not a set of theoretical writings about the happiness, but the view of happiness throughout the theory and practice of Marx. Since the reform and opening, the alienation of happiness can be seen everywhere. So there is some important contemporary significance to explore the practical happiness.The paper is divided into four parts. In the first part, from the perspective of history, the thesis makes an analysis and comparison and of the understanding and explanation for happiness by ancient and modern philosophers and ethicists, summarizes the various theoretical schools and their points of view, and outlines the theoretical explanation of happiness by Marx. In the western country, there are two kinds of happiness:rational happiness and emotional happiness; but in the ancient of China, the concept of happiness is more mature than other countries, such as pray happiness with moral, being moral for happiness and conflicting thoughts between moral and happiness. And summarize the happiness’s theoretical elaboration of Marxist classical writers. with Marxism’s guide and along the theory of ancient masters, the thesis makes a definition for the basic meaning of happiness that happiness is psychological experience by human when they achieve major needs, desires and objectives; happiness is the unity of objective and subjective. Then it explains the three basic characteristics of happiness:subjectivity and objectivity, truth and illusion, relativity and absolute. In the second part, the thesis paid attention to the outlook of Marx during his exploring for practical happiness. The view of happiness in "Graduation thesis of Middle school and Doctoral dissertation" is the reality orientation in the domination of the rationalism world view, "Economics and philosophy manuscript in 1844"contains the free happiness on the basis of humanistic materialism, the thought of happiness is the sublimation of Marx’s view of the practical happiness in "The outline" and "The Germany’s ideology". In the third part, By studying the thought card of the view of the practical happiness of Marx, it is not difficult to find the practical basis and human orientation in Marx’s happiness. By reading the classical work of Marx, we can conclude as follows:the ultimate goal of his theory is to achieve human’s freedom, liberation and full development. Marx made sublation and development on the basis of the previous philosophers’happiness views, He put forward that the view of the practical happiness is the real happiness that people pursuit. In the fourth part, the thesis summarizes that Marx’s view of the practical happiness makes an important significance in the society. Especially contemporary China in guided by the scientific development. The humanistic view of happiness, the view of happiness of the construction and share together, the harmonious view of happiness and core values are the constant deepening and development of Marx’s view of the practical happiness.

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