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A CounterCriticism of the Recent Criticism about Practical Ontology
——An Initial Summary of the Criticism by Mr. Dong Xuewen and Others

  

  • Received:2010-06-23 Online:2011-01-15 Published:2011-01-15

Abstract:

(Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China)Abstract: The argument about "practical ontology" as being the patchwork of Marx' s view of practice and Heidegger'  ontology derives from a onesided understanding of "ontology" and a separation of the integrity of Marxist ideology. In view of Marx, "matter" and "nature" are merely "primary" in the sense of "origin" rather than "ontology." From the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 to his later critiques of political economy, Marx constantly inquiries into the question of "existence" (on, being, sein). His true revolutionary transcendence, beyond all classical philosophies and metaphysics including old materialism, is his ontological thinking closely combined with the "view of practice," rather than the socalled "substantial ontology."
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