| As the fourth plenary session of the16th in the "decision" proposed "to construct a socialist harmonious society" new proposition, social management thoughts research by the scholars extensive attention. Based on research from the region, the research mainly focused on domestic; From the perspective of the research, most studies boundaries in sociology and management field. From the research on the object, most of the social management ideas of Marx and Engels or of Marx’s social management concept as the main research object. Engels’ social management thought research do not pay enough attention, has been in a marxist social management ideas to the whole of the research, ignoring Engels individual social management thoughts make a comprehensive and systematic research. The current our country is in the key period of reform and development, from the Angle of philosophy to interpret Engels’ social management thinking, in the new historical conditions renew the idea, emancipate the mind, broaden our horizon, expand ideas, explore the Chinese characteristic social management, promote the construction of harmonious society undoubtedly has great significance for reference.This paper through the back Engels social management thinking of the historical background and theoretical origin, adhere to the dialectical materialism and historical materialism as a guide, systematically elaborated the Engels social justice thought, people’s subject status thought, social harmonious ideas and people’s free and overall development thought and other major social management thought content, characteristics and philosophical implication, and adhere to the theory and the method of combining the reality, further study of the social management rule, for the construction of socialist harmonious society and its practice strategy, provide valuable reference or reference. |