Why Not Happiness? Marx’s Notion of the Free Life

IF 0.8 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Yuval Eytan
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Abstract

It has recently been claimed that Marx’s aspiration to achieve happiness by reducing human suffering makes it possible to dismantle the conceptual walls between his approach, contemporary socialist approaches, and Eastern and Western perceptions of happiness. In contrast, this essay argues that Marx’s notion of freedom not only cannot be conceived as a means of achieving happiness but actually contradicts the possibility of happiness. The essay instead interprets the dialectical negation of the ideal of happiness in a way intended not to reinforce the walls between Marx’s approach and different worldviews but to reveal a common denominator relevant to different streams of nineteenth-century thought on this subject. Marx’s own conclusion that satisfaction is not a natural purpose of human existence originates in a dialectical approach regarding human needs that expresses radical criticism toward the hierarchical binary conception of pleasure and pain and of physical and spiritual needs.
为什么不是幸福?马克思的自由生命观
最近有人声称,马克思通过减少人类痛苦来实现幸福的愿望,使他有可能拆除他的方法、当代社会主义方法和东西方对幸福的看法之间的概念墙。相反,本文认为,马克思的自由观不仅不能被视为实现幸福的手段,而且实际上与幸福的可能性相矛盾。相反,这篇文章解释了对幸福理想的辩证否定,其目的不是加固马克思的方法与不同世界观之间的墙,而是揭示与19世纪关于这一主题的不同思想流相关的共同点。马克思自己的结论,即满足不是人类存在的自然目的,源于对人类需求的辩证方法,该方法表达了对快乐和痛苦以及身体和精神需求的等级二元概念的激进批评。
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