Author(s)

Huang Zixiao

Corresponding Author

Huang Zixiao

ABSTRACT

As the starting point of Marx's new theory of socialist values and social perspective, "Thesen über Feuerbach" sprouted "historical materialism" and "practical materialism" on the basis of criticizing old materialism and Feuerbach. This article analyzed and investgated the influence of his writing background and Marx's methodology on its formation. The "Thesen über Feuerbach" fully proves that practicalism is a practical problem, thinking is a kind of knowledge that can only be based on objective practice, so that people can seek the truth of subjective knowledge on the basis of actual existence. The truthfulness of human being is used to prove that people’s thinking is Diesseitigkeit. - It is not to seek the truth of cognition in thinking, but to seek subjective thinking through practices to judge whether the cognition is truthful. While showing the essential of " menschlich and natürlich" of the " Wesen der Menschen" in the society, they also have a "social nature" through specific labor practices. Because of this, the social nature of people constitutes the sum of social relationships (In seiner Wirklichkeit ist es das Ensemble der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse). When this certain regularity is formed in the development and change of this relationship, the history is formed. The development of history has its regularity and tendency, so it is constantly developing and changing according to certain laws, and the truth of thinking is also a regular process of continuous development and changing, through the "Thesen über Feuerbach" We can better grasp the laws of history and to predict the future. Methodology is used to study the historical nature of practices and to prove the truthfulness of thinking. Only when the truth of theoretical form has shown in the objective reality in practices, and then it reflects the nature of the objective things with a better judgment whether the understanding is consistently with the objective reality. Based on the further analysis of the nature of human beings and the nature of society, the uses and the summary of philosophical theoretical explanations and requirements of the objective actual forms the reflection of practices; That could help us to better deal with the various issues and new contradictions arising from the rapid development of today’s society. It is through specific methods and specific practices to explain the world, not only through philosophical theories, so that the objective and practical analysis conforms to the objective nature of things and the truth of thinking, and then grasps the laws of our era to solve our specific contradictions.

KEYWORDS

Thesen über Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Methodology, The nature of practicalism