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Lukacs Ontology Thought

Posted on:2006-08-20Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:M W LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360155960578Subject:Marxist philosophy
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Among the numerous philosophers in 20th century, Lukacs initiates a historical perspective of the ontological studies on Marxism. The main point of his theory is to affirm the close relationship between Marxism and Hegelian Dialectics. After the reconstruction on Hegelian dialectic materialism, the transform in Marxism which is different from the formers' has been taken place in its foundation, i.e. its Ontology.Lukacs' ontological idea mainly comes from Hegelian historical ontology and Marxist ontology of Social Being. Lukacs maintains that the Marxist historical materialism is no other than the Ontology of Social Being. Realism and Existentialism missed to get the truth of the Being, and the correct direction for the contemporary ontological research is to revert to the Marxist Ontology of Social Being.Young Lukacs' ontological idea opens a new perspective of dialogue in the studies of Marxist hermeneutics. He takes dialectics as the revolutionary principle in his ontology, and the totality as realistic brace. Moreover, he confirms the historicity the principal status in the Marxist ontology, applies dialectics into the simultaneous criticize the capitalistic society, reveals the rationalization, formalization and abstraction as the modern characteristics of the materialization, thereby puts the question of Alienation into the center of the contemporary philosophical dispute. In his late time, Lukacs regards the Alienation as a social historical phenomenon, as a featured historical phenomenon in the commercial economic society, which unfolds the contemporary significance of Marxism in a perspective of the ontological principle.Lukacs' ontology developed in his late ages. He understands the labour as the ontological foundation for all kinds of the human practices. The teleological commitment, especial the secondary teleological commitment positing in labour embody the hypostatic characteristics of the human activities. Lukacs points out that the ontological investigation must be probed deeply into the ordinary life, that a practical person who wants to show the significance of the existence must get into the daily life. Only when natural being is considered as the foundation of the social being, the essence of the social being can be found. The essence of the social being is much more beyond its historicity, objectivity and categorical regulation, the key question of which is the relation between social being and consciousness over which the language is the bridge.Lukacs' ontology provides us a historical horizon to construct the Marxist ontological theory, his old-age though to youth-age of retify ,and is right on the main internal structure or the direction,but exists tendency that overdo.So, thereby it can be pointed out that Marist philosophy is the Ontology of Social Being in this contemporary world.
Keywords/Search Tags:Ontology, Dialectics, Totality, historicity, teleological commitment, social being.
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