As an introduction, the course aims at broadening the research on Marxism philosophy. And it is led with a primary principle.
First, the course applies the method which combines the history, the arguments with the lucubrations, lays the foundation on the history and lucubrations, and focuses on the arguments. By doing so, it introduces the basic knowledge, basic lucubrations and basic theories.
Second, the course stands upon the current situation, it leads the students to seize some central issues of the study on philosophy.
Third, according to the principle that is to integrate the academic and the reality, the course concentrates on some big issues which the social practice has put forward.
Fourth, it is advocated that interaction and communication of the teachers and students. On the basis of debates in class and some reading out of class, it motivates the students to learn and enhances the ability to think and reflect.
Philosophy
哲学是一门特殊的学问，是与通常局限于某种具体对象的知识体系不同的学问。在汉语中，“哲”是聪明的意思，在希腊文中则意味着爱智慧，所以，按照字义解释，哲学是一种使人聪明、启发智慧的学问。然而，这并不足以表明哲学的实质。哲学作为一门学问，是同人们的世界观联系在一起的，是人们世界观的理论表现形态。因此，哲学是理论化、系统化了的世界观，或者说，是人们世界观的理论体系。
