Mao Zedong's Triple Recasting of the Traditional Philosophy of Knowledge and Action
Mao Zedong,from a Marxist philosophical standpoint,critically examined the traditional philosophy of knowledge and ac-tion,achieving a triple transformation of it.Firstly,Mao Zedong abandoned the traditional philosophy of knowing and doing.He distin-guished between cognitive activities and practical activities,thus transcending the dualistic debates on the precedence of knowledge over action or the reverse,as found in old materialism and idealism.On the basis of adhering to the perspective of practice,Mao Ze-dong realized the discarding of the division of traditional knowledge and deed philosophy.Secondly,Mao Zedong also promoted the cre-ative transformation of traditional knowledge-action philosophy from four aspects:creatively transforming the cyclical repetition of know-ing and doing into a dialectical materialist cycle of"mater-spirit-mater",into a materialist dialectical cycle of"particular-general-particular",into a mass line work method cycle of"masses-leadership-masses"and into a leadership principle cycle of"democracy-centralism-democracy."Lastly,Mao Zedong also promoted the innovative development of traditional philosophy of knowledge and action in three ways:by replacing the concepts of"action"and"knowledge"with the scientific categories of"practice"and"cogni-tion,"innovatively developing the traditional philosophy;by innovatively developing the theory of the process and laws of cognition within the traditional philosophy;and by innovatively transforming the"intuitive reflection theory"of the traditional philosophy into an"active and revolutionary reflection theory."
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