Analysis On Feuerbach Humanism

The relationship matter between Feuerbach humanism philosophy and Marx philosophy is a fundamental problem to correctly and deeply understand Marx philosophy. The most effective method to deeply and accurately grasp the essence of Marx philosophy is to place the forming process of Marx philosophy thoughts on the closest contact of comparing with Feuerbach's thoughts which is one of its former philosophy thinkers. No doubt this is also based on objectively and precisely comprehending the inevitability of historical and logical advent, the historical mission and the essence of Feuerbach humanism philosophy.Feuerbach humanism philosophy was also called and urged by the reality of his era, conformed to the law of historical development, inevitably generated and was a link of history. Its undisputed and realest foundation which Feuerbach chose as the basis of his philosophy is nature. He regards nature as the beginning and regard human as the core to finish his philosophy construction. Feuerbach humanism first begins with man's existence, defines what he called the "realistic people" and then further defines the nature of man. The expression of human essence from low to high has four levels:man's natural essence, man's class nature, man's social nature and man's absolute essence. The whole theory of man's nature for Feuerbach humanism is the basis of his whole philosophy thoughts. They are all put forward to fulfill certain and particular one of tasks in his philosophy, so understanding his human essence theory also is basically a good grasp of his philosophy. Feuerbach uses "man"in various area and perfectly explicates humanistic epistemology and the viewpoint of humanistic ethics and religion and history. It is man that makes all various aspects of his philosophy become a harmonious whole. But it should be pointed out that his human essence theory only stands on the definition of class not on the definition of individual person. So essentially the essence theory of man can only get us know the common people but cannot make us understand why each person in real life is different of each other. Undoubtedly, this task is solved by Marx with the production labor of human which has true character of society and is the true nature of social life.Feuerbach to Marx mainly is not materialism but his humanism. Having to frankly declare that under some specific condition Feuerbach humanism philosophy does indeed influence the development and formation of Marx philosophy thoughts and have some inspiration as a way to deal with his research materials with the thinking mode and instrumental significance, so the impact is only auxiliary; And the decisive power can only be Marx himself because at the very start Marx just transformed his philosophy standpoint and established leading research direction and the research content of his philosophy since he had much taken part in plenty of social practice. Researching of civil society is the central clue that Marx's thoughts continually evolved. The vigor that pushes forward his thoughts to develop and finally form is that Marx studies history of human society especially realistic political economy of capitalism society. Feuerbach humanism affected Marx philosophy with both methodology and specific viewpoint for not only short-term but also long-term. It is during the course in which with the help of the driving device of Feuerbach humanism Marx explored by himself and finally realized philosophy breakthrough along the direction and way he had ascertained at the beginning that the significance and value of Feuerbach humanism is highlighted and can not be erased.