Research On The Formation Of Kenjuro Yanagada's Marxist Ethical Thought

Kenjuro Yanagida is the first Marxist ethicist in Japan who combines Marxism with his own ethical thoughts.He skillfully used Marxism to transform his early idealism,so that his ethical thought has the dual attributes of social history,and put forward scientific guidelines for the transformation of the current situation of Japanese society.It is of historical and practical significance to study his thoughts.The first chapter mainly analyzes the background of his life.After the Second World War,the changes of his ethics are closely related to the Second World War.Before the Second World War,Japanese people lived in affluence,and the contradiction between labor and capital was only in its infancy.The mainstream of social ethics was the philosophy of Nishida,and Marxist philosophy could only survive in Japan.During this period,Kenjuro Yanagida 's ethics mainly developed his philosophy.After World War II,the defeat brought about the outbreak of various contradictions in Japanese society.Kenjuro Yanagida realized that Nishida's philosophy could not save the Japanese society at that time,so he began to study Marxist philosophy.His Marxist ethics is mainly to use dialectical materialism to transform Westfield philosophy,discard the conservative ideas in Westfield philosophy,and develop the progressive ideas.After the Second World War,he also studied Mao Zedong's philosophy and spoke highly of Mao Zedong.He thought that Mao Zedong's "contradiction theory" was very suitable for the Japanese society at that time.The second chapter mainly introduces one of Kenjuro Yanagida's representative works——the philosophy of freedom.In the 1960 s,people living in Japanese society praised their living in a free and democratic society and criticized the lack of freedom in socialist countries.However,he found that most Japanese people living in "free society" are not free,so he wrote "philosophy of freedom".Through this book,on the one hand,he exposed the illusion of "freedom" in capitalist society;on the other hand,he explained his Marxist ethics through the analysis of social reality and the interpretation of the concept of freedom.In this book,the characteristics of Kenjuro Yanagida 's Marxist ethics are very prominent,that is,to apply Marxist dialectical materialism to his ethics,to analyze a concept from both historical and social perspectives,and to apply the conclusions to the criticism of the real society,so as to draw practical ways to transform the real society.The third chapter is mainly about the analysis of Kenjuro Yanagida's Marxist ethics.First of all,it analyzes the relationship between his Marxist ethical thought and Nishida philosophy.Instead of completely abandoning his early ethical thought,Kenjuro Yanagida's Marxist ethical thought is critically inherited and absorbed.Through the transformation of his thought by Marxism,it eventually evolved into a practical Marxist ethical thought suitable for the current situation of Japanese Society.Secondly,Kenjuro Yanagida's Marxist ethics has its progress and limitations.The progressive nature of his thought lies in that he chooses to start with reality and history to find out the objective laws from any phenomenon or thing,and applies the discovered laws to the analysis of the real society,which makes his thought more logical and objective.However,the value orientation of humanism still exists in his Marxist ethics,which leads to the fact that his ethics can never rise from abstract to concrete.It also makes it impossible for him to study all kinds of ethical phenomena in capitalist society and reveal the essence of ethical value of democratic freedom in capitalist society.In general,Kenjuro Yanagida's Marxist ethical thought has certain reference value to the ethical construction of our country.