关键词: 历史生成论, 唯物辩证思维, 历史决定论, 知性思维, 唯物史观

Abstract: Both the logic of Hegel's philosophy of history and the logic of Marx's historical materialism start from a presumption of “history”. Different opinions of the “law of history” lead to different conceptions of the “history”. Historical materialism holds that history is nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims. This indicates that its “ontology of history” is not about the “law of reason” in the sense of Hegel's philosophy of history, but is about the “law of practice”. Historical generativism is a conception of history based on historical materialism as understood with the materialist dialectical thinking. It respresents an understanding of Marx's materialist dialectical thinking that history is nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims. In contrast, historical determinism is a conception of history in the sense of materialism as understood with the “thinking of understanding”, showing a transcendence of Hegel's idealistic dialectics that history is a rational process. The limit of historical determinism lies in that it obscures the meaning of the dialectical relations between social being and social consciousness. However, the rationality of historical generativism lies in that it accurately defines the nature of history as the philosophical representation of the “law of the practical history”, instead of trying to propose an abstract “general philosophy of history” concerning the sociohistorical development.

Key words: generativism, materialist dialectical thinking, historical determinism, thinking of understanding, historical materialism