The Elementary Study Of Marx's Enlightenment View

Marxism and the thought of enlightenment is two greatly influential western trend of thought that affect china to transform society in modern times. In a sense, Marx's enlightenment view is a result of analyzing how two thought emerge relation between them. In the beginning of twenty century, Marxism and the thought of enlightenment come into the field of Chinese vision by turn, and play an extraordinary part in transform and building of china society and china culture. This paper start with enlightenment definition, and perspective modern enlightenment philosopher's conclusive evidence and criticization to it, and analyze Marx's fundamental attitude in theory of civil society and government,personal freedom overstepping political liberation by summarizing modern concept of enlightenment. On the hand, he accepted that the thought of enlightenment is advanced to society and history in his earlier writings and papers. On the other hand, he understood the history of world by productive forces and found the classic limitation and history limitation that exist in modern enlightenment concept. In brief, the enlightenment concept of Marx advance and associate with the modernization thought of Marx in his thought history. He not only confirmed promotion of capitalism to society, but also overcome submitting to the rule of capitalism. So in a sense, the enlightenment concept of Marx completely surpassed the former enlightenment concept in its value and target. It means that we should examine inside theme of the enlightenment using historical talk attitude, and find a modernization way and foundation to mix value and reason together. On this basement, this paper also discuss the influence of the enlightenment of Marx to western and Chinese scholar in modernity and post-modernity. Especially in post-modernity, the enlightenment concept of Marx provide a way to how let people get real liberation beyond politic, and supply a model essay to elaborate the crucial culture question of china from principal part when china face up western hegemony.