德谟克利特的幸福论及现实价值

Democritus' Theory of Happiness and Its Practical Value

被马克思和恩格斯称为"希腊人中第一个百科全书式的学者"的西方哲学家德谟克利特,是西方伦理学思想史上最早的唯物主义幸福论代表人物。他在认识论的基础上,对于"幸福的来源","什么是幸福","如何才能得到幸福"等问题作了系统而完整的阐述。随着我国由生存型社会向发展型社会的转变,社会发展的根本目的不再是社会财富的最大化,而在于以实现物质生活和精神生活相统一的国民幸福最大化。因此,研究德谟克利特唯物主义幸福论的合理内核,对提高我国国民幸福感具有重要的借鉴价值。

The western philosopher Democritus,who was called the first Greek encyclopedic scholars by Marx and Engels,is the earliest representative of Materialistic Happiness theory in the history of western ethics thoughts. On the basis of epistemology,he elaborates systematically and wholly on such questions as ＂what is the origin of happiness？＂,＂what is happiness？＂ and ＂how can happiness be obtained？＂ etc. With China ＇s change from survival- oriented society to the development- oriented society,the fundamental purpose of social development is no longer the maximization of social wealth but that of unified material and spiritual life of national happiness. Hence,it is of great value in improving China＇s national happiness to explore the rational kernel of Democritus materialism theory of happiness.