从马克思主义唯物史观看中西文化的差异

On the Differences between Chinese and Western Cultures from the Perspective of Marxist Historical Materialism

马克思主义唯物史观认为社会存在决定社会意识,社会意识反作用于社会存在。文化作为一种社会意识,是人类历史发展中精神财富的沉淀和积累,是一个民族的灵魂和精神。不同的社会存在造就了不同的文化。中西文化由于不同的地理环境、人口因素和生产方式等社会存在,在历经几千年的人类发展中形成了巨大的差异。不同的文化反过来又影响了人类社会的发展进程。人类历史发展过程中形成的不同民族的文化并无高低之分,我们应该用马克思唯物史观中的辩证观点客观对待中西文化的差异。

Marxist historical materialism holds that social existence determines social consciousness. Culture as a social con-sciousness , is the accumulation of spiritual wealth in the development of human history, and is a national soul and spirit. Different social existence and social consciousness create different cultures. Due to different social existence,such as geo-graphical environment, population factors and production methods, Chinese and Western culture forms a huge difference af-ter thousands of years of human development. There is no excellent distinction between the culture of different nationalities in the process of human history development. We should treat the difference between Chinese and western culture objectively from the dialectical view of Marxs historical materialism.