Academic Degree:

Master Degree

Major:

Marxist Philosophy

Brief Introduction

The Major of Marxist philosophy, being an important secondary discipline in the Department of Philosophy, mainly concentrates on studies of dialectical materialism and historical materialism. Its main fields include the theory, history, and application of Marxist philosophy. The history of this subject can be traced back to the Department of Philosophy & History of Communist Party of China established in 1952. Officially affiliated to the newly established Department of Philosophy of the School of Humanities in 2002, it was approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council to set up a master degree authorization unit in 2003. Currently, three major research orientations are covered including value philosophy, political philosophy and foreign Marxist philosophy. Our teaching and academic staff includes 8 members within 4 professors (including 2 second-grade professors and the only one tenured professor of non-law major in our university), 3 associate professors and 1 lecturer, whose studies all focus on the mentioned directions. Lastly, it is with strong academic atmosphere and excellent academic achievements in our subject.

Educational Objective

Our goal is to cultivate compound and innovative talents with sound value and outlook for world and life, solid expertise in his specialized field and excellent mastery of theoretical knowledge, fine academic literacy and innovative ability, physical and mental well-being and excellent morals with academic skills, in order to meet the requirement of contemporary social development.

Specific requirement:

1. to acquire solid knowledge in his specialized field and exceptional capacity of scientific research, to understand the main achievements and latest developments of academic research domestically and internationally, and to be competent for practical work such as teaching and scientific research;

2. to focus on the training of philosophical methods and thinking, to cultivate the awareness of concerning for China’s practical problems, and to improve basic ability to solve major theoretical and practical problems encountered in modernization.

Major Tracks

1. The philosophy of value discusses the basis, characteristics and the laws of development in value activities, consciousness and ideas, and conducts research on the value of life and practice. It is not only an important part of elementary theories in philosophy, but also possessed with universal meaning in methodology. It is the forefront field and newly emerged branch in contemporary philosophy.

2. Political philosophy attaches importance to the interpretation of the classic text of Marxism on the contemporary significance of China's modernization. It serves the construction of contemporary Chinese Marxist political philosophy based on the practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics, through grasping the logic of development, methodological and cross-nation characteristics of classic theories, at the same time absorbing the theoretical resources of political philosophy domestically and internationally.

3. Foreign Marxist Philosophy intends to grasp the history of foreign Marxism developed since the 20th century in the context of comparing the classic Marxism and the Second International and the Third. In the meantime, it concentrates on relating the international academic cutting edge to the philosophy of value and political philosophy of Marxism.

Studying Language:

Working Language: Chinese

Study Duration

3 years