The Theory Of View Of Value By Marx And Contemporary Enlightenment

The pursuit of values is the eternal theme of humanity. Human had pursued thevalues in the livelihood since their birth, and different values had been formed in thisprocess. The former philosophers had formed lots of production through research onvalues, while Marx formed Marxism via criticizing the former values on the basis ofpracticing. The comprehensive understandings and grasps of the theory about Marx’svalues will be significant regarding to the construction of our country contemporarySocialism values.This article outlines the contents and its basic characteristics of Marx’s valuetheory based on the review of the Marx’s theory of value, then reveals itsenlightenment on the construction of contemporary Chinese social values.This paper firstly takes the venation of historical development about the westernvalues as a starting point, and then investigates ancient Greece Rome in philosophy,Scholasticism in the middle ages, modern Western philosophy values, thus layingfoundations for the research of theory about Marx’s values. It was the very way thatMarx had formed the brand-new values that through criticism, inheritance anddevelopment of the former values. After that, this paper straightens three stages thatthe Marx values had experienced from bud, formation to systematic perfection from ahistorical angle, standing on the classical literature of Marx.The paper summarizes and refines the contents and basic characteristics of Marxvalues theory on the basis of the first part. As for the contents, this paper divides thecontents of Marx values from value logic into four parts including value thinking,value principle, value ideal, value specification, from which Marx values has beenanalyzed. At the same time, the characteristics of Marx values has also been graduallyhighlighted. It is on the basis of this that the basic characteristics of Marx valuestheory are elaborated.Finally, this article proposes the enlightenment of contemporary about valuesconstruction of China. The value thought of Marx values theory social practiceunderlines practice quality in the values construction. Value principles about peopleand the value standard about interests of the people requires attention to values in theconstruction of main factor. While the value ideal of people’s free and all-rounddevelopment requires grasping the values in the construction of the ultimate goal.In short, the Marx values are significant transformation of the human societyvalues, are also the inevitable products of time development, having theepoch-making profound significance. Deeply interpreting of Marx values, not onlyreveals the profound implication of Marx values for the contemporary people, but alsoindicates the directions for values construction in the time of our country transition.