Research On Engels' Marriage Family Ethics And Its Contemporary Value

The family of marriage is the important cell of the society.The harmonious stability of the family of marriage is related to the harmony of family and the social stability,and the ethics of the family of marriage is harmonious foundation of the family of marriage.In Family,Private Property and the State of Origin,Engels systematically analyzes the characteristics of marriage and family in different periods of human society.He points out the essence and moral requirements of marriage and family and systematically expounds the ethical thoughts of marriage and family.Engels' ethical thought of the family of marriage mainly divides into the early stage,the development stage and the mature stage.In the early stage,with the contrast of parents' education and character,Engels determined his ethical ideal of Communism.The warm family environment created Engels' optimistic and positive world outlook and life attitude and formed his emotional keynote of ethical thought of marriage and family.His marriage with the female textile workers caused him to deeply feel how the bourgeois concept mutilates people's feelings,which was the realistic basis of his thought;The completion of his Holy Family and British Working Class Status marked Engels' study of ethics of marriage and family more profound and comprehensive.In the stage of development,Engels' study on ethics of marriage and family had been enriched gradually.The Frontier and Epilogue of ‘The Fragment of The Fourier Theory of Commerce' and “The “Anti-Turin” Theory marked the maturity of the ethical thought of marriage and family;This period was the peak period of Engels' thought.In cooperation with Marx,he created more academic works,and for the first time,he combined the moral concept of marriage and family with the macroscopic political system of the country and put the emergence and development of ethic and morality on the basis of social and economic development.He opposed the metaphysical theory that the material conditions of moral and actual social life are divorced and thought that the change of the relationship between marriage and family must be based on the changes of the mode of social economy.In this stage,Engels elaborated the concept of marriage and family,carried out the construction of ethical system of it and expressed his viewpoint in Family,PrivateProperty and the State of Origin.Engels' thought inherits the Morgan thought that the core and foundation of the existence of marriage and family is sincere love,the research method of positivism theory and Marx's thought about love and marriage.Engels is the essence summary and innovation development of the former thought.Engels stood in the angle of historical materialism,researched on the development form of marriage and family and showed that the four forms of marriage and family,namely the hybrid family,the punaluan family with certain genetic restrictions,the dual family with the relationship between parents and children,and the monogamous family.The monogamous family is the ideal family form which is suitable for the future development of communist society.The nature of marriage and family has natural attribute and social attribute.From the view of natural attribute,marriage and family is the natural relationship which is on the basis of blood relationship.From the view of social attribute,the relationship of marriage and family is based on certain economic situation and is restricted by social relations.The establishment of marriage and family should be based on the premise of mutual love,adhering to the freedom of marriage,promoting emancipation of women and adhering to the idea of gender equality.Engels' ethical thought of marriage and family has the important theoretical value and the practical value.In the view of theoretical value,Engels' thought provides the correct worth guidance and the clear moral basis for family's construction in our country and provides the theoretical foundation for the construction of ideal monogamy family.In the view of practical value,Engels' ethical thought of marriage and family is conducive to the establishment of a healthy relationship between the sexes,to overcome the materialistic orientation of marriage,to suggest a harmonious relationship of family,to promote the construction of a harmonious society.