The Ethicalness of the Understanding in Western Marxism
Western Marxism believes that understanding itself has ethical attributes and is the embodiment of ethical values.The objective understanding of self,others and society is the result of the interaction of moral emotion and ethical wisdom.Western Marxists analyze how western developed capitalism hinders people's objective understanding and explore the ways to realize it.From the perspective of the subject of the understanding,modern materialist soci-ety leads to the alienation of people's character structure and psychological mechanism,which becomes an obstacle to objective understanding.The objective understanding based on reason and love ultimately depends on the construction of a sane society.From the mechanism of un-derstanding,capitalist ideology makes objective understanding impossible.Only by establish-ing a historical and scientific discourse of understanding can we get out of the closed cycle of ideology and subjective understanding and realize the objective understanding.As to the ethi-cal standards of understanding,relativism of postmodern cultural theory is the embodiment of capitalist crisis,which hinders people from objectively understanding the fundamental needs of mankind.Only by establishing universal ethical standards for people's free flourishing can real objective understanding be realized in the tension of universality and locality.
Western Marxismethical understandingsubject of understandingideologyuniversality
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