Engels Marriage Family Ethics Research

The moral status of the civil society and the slanders of the bourgeois theory of communism are the social basis of Engels Marriage Family Ethics. The critical inheritance of ethical ideas of the Germany classical philosophers, the optional reference to the results of the Human Anthropology and Sociology, and the development of Marx Marriage Family Ethics are its theoretical sources. Adolescence is the infancy of Engels Marriage Family Ethics, the time from1845to1878is the formation, and the Family, Private Property and the State of Origin marks its mature. Engels uses the stand, viewpoint and method of Historical Materialism to analyze and evaluate the appearance and evolution of Marriage Family relationship in the human history, and prospects the future of human marriage. Engels finally forms the voluntary and loyal marriage ethical theory with the same ideals and beliefs, and the family ethical theory with love, independent, free and careful marriage and divorce, equal family relationship and fulfilling obligations consciously.Engels Marriage Family Ethics not only changes the morality of human marriage and family, surpasses Morgan’s ethical theory, complements and develops further the two production theories of Historical Materialism, develops and improves the Marriage Family Ethics of Marxism, but also provides an important reference for our marriage and family moral construction. With the deepening of reform and opening up, China has entered a "social transition" period, a series of new problems appear in the field of marriage and family morality, and there is an urgent need for a guidance of the scientific thinking of marriage and family ethics. Engels Marriage Family Ethics provides the basic guiding principles for us to establish a socialist marriage concept, which enlightens us that the ethics combined with freedom and self-disciplines are basic requirement. The ethics are of referential value for social happy family constructions and harmonious society.