The Loss and Return of Human Essence:an Exploration Based on Modernization Perspective
As a sublation of the divine metaphysics,capital metaphysics did not lead humans towards the path of modernization in essence,but replaced human relationships with material relationships un-der the logic of things,instead.The criticism of human beings by the capitalist modernization model calls for a new paradigm of rescuing humans and modern civilization.This paper based on the materi-alist view of history,analysised the coupling between modernization and human essence in the three di-mensions of human free will,social relations,and practical needs.Taking labor as the clue and human freedom and comprehensive development as the goal,constructed a practical path to achieve the modern-ization of human essence.Capitalism,due to its inherent contradictions,defermines its historical tempo-rality in the modernization of human essence.As a socialist country that inherits and develops Marxist theory of human essence and modernization ideas.On the basis of its own reality and the model of criticizing western modernization,China has opened up a people-centered China's path to moderniza-tion,which has not only avoided the erosion of capital on the modernization of human essence,but also given people free and full development space,and corrected the institutional vision of realizing the mod-ernization of human essence.
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