Survey On Philosophy Of Alienation

Alienation is a concept of philosophy and sociology. The word, alienation, orignated from Latin with the following meanings: surrender, transfer, estrangement, difference, separation, insanity, etc... Later, different philosophers interpreted alienation in different ways. Hobbes explained transfer of rights with the use of alienation. As for Hegel, he considered alienation as externalization of absolute spirit. Marx's alienation theory mainly focused on laboring alienation. Lukacs regarded alienation as materalization. Fromm argued that modern society was a collective alienating society.Based on the origions of alienation this article analyzed these classical ideas through various persectives of its meaning and characterization such as productivity alienation, consumption alienation, science alienation, politics alienation and so on. The article also analyzed the features of alienation at different social conditions and times on the basis of traditional western sociologies, which deemed that the interaction of the relation between human being and the naturn and the relation among human beings contributed to the development of human history. However, this kind of interaction must alienate at speical period of human history. Additionally, this interaction could definitely choose to quit alienation at some period. Therefore, the article comes to a conclusion that alienation is a "must" way to the evolution of human society and a product of the devleopment of human society.Actually, alienation is a definition on relations. This article argued that alienation is that the object negate the subject during the practising process and social devleopment and human values come into conflict in the field of social history and finally concludes that alienation exists inside the whole process of human practice and lives with the history of human being, which will not form the basis of human tragedies, but the inside motivation and source of human pursuit and the endless development of human beings.Currently, China at a special period should give much attention to "alienation" phenomena and its severe negative effects, take a correct attitude at its long-term inevitability during the process of social development and its possibility that might be controlled, valued the diversity of social conditions, strive to create a fair society, complete social legal system, improve socialism spiritual construction and inherit the classics of Chinese traditional culture and effectively carry out these measures in order to restrain the phenomena of alienation at the beginning period of socialism.