Study On Xia Zhentao's Thoughts Of Hominology

Xia Zhentao arranges and analyzes Marxist understanding of human after reading the classical exposition and main works of Marx and Engels with Marxist practical materialism as the basic standpoint.He reproduces the Marxism humanity theory system on human and criticizes wrong idea" see things but not people”of Marxism.It establishes the firm guidance of Marxism on our socialist cause.The main contents of the system are human beings' origins,human attributes and human development.The main threads are relationship,activity and development.And on this basis Xia deepens his understanding of the Marxism humanity theory further.In the relation of mankind and nature,he believes that our society is a cultural world and his cultural existence of human being is one of the characteristic features as a social existence.On the exposition of consciousness,Xia accurately holds the form and process of consciousness and Summarizes consciousness features and functionality combiningthe knowledge acquired in modern advanced neuroscience and psychology.On the overall understanding of human being,he reckons that Cultural evolution is created and realized by human activity,practice and labour which is a new human-specific way of evolution and development.Then he expounds Marxist theory of overall human development.Starting with the realistic existence of human,Xia originally opens a research angle-“relational domain” of philosophy.In the research,he pay attention to compare he features of three forms of existence which are individual person individuality,special community and Kind of existence and then confirm the forms of the study subject.As for research methods,Xia grasps the essence of indeed of human being from ego needs,society needs and social relationships.In the research principle,he holds to use Practical Materialism to guide his study and has a complete grasp of the development and grasp the essence of man.For historical and present conditions,Xia emphasizes the interpretation of the classical humanism of Marxism,but his research is at a more theoretical level.He doesn't make it turn into methodology principle to guide constructive practice of socialist modernization and be universal to the masses.He pay attention to start his study from common relationship of human being.He also answers the questions such as “what's man?”,“how to know people” on the Marxian philosophy angle.He enriches to the humanity theory in the new l period and offers a new tool to study Marxism.He builds the system of human theory with Chinese characteristic under the instruction of Marxism.He is the one of the herald most advanced representative expert of Marxist human thought in contemporary China.He is also one of the completely practical materialist and representative experts of Marxism.