Exploring the Academic and Ideological Relationship Between Marx and Scottish Enlightenment Thought——Based on Material Interest Research as a Clue
The discussion of the basic level of material interests helps to understand the ideological connection between Marx and the Scottish Enlightenment.Scottish Enlightenment thinkers associated the hierarchy of real interests with commerce,morality,and politics,activating the general tendency of interests in human development while concealing the negative consequences behind economic interests.Unlike this,Marx,based on the practical benefits of political liberation,explored the negative rule construction of private interests by Scottish Enlightenment thinkers,and utilized the basic concern of universal interests in human liberation to elevate the material touch of general interests to scientific demands of universal interests,ultimately achieving a grasp of the era of the general interests of the proletarian revolution.