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What kinds of outlook on life

The basic contents of the outlook on life include:

Happiness, bitterness, honor and disgrace, life and death, friendship, morality, aesthetics, public and private, love and so on.

Outlook on life:

Outlook on life is the fundamental view on the purpose and meaning of life formed by people in practice, which determines the goal of people's practical activities, the direction of the path of life, and determines the value orientation of people's behavioral choices and attitudes toward life.

The outlook on life is an important part of the worldview, subject to the constraints of the worldview (in layman's terms, a person who usually plays games often, in his world only games, his world is a small world). The outlook on life is mainly embodied through the three aspects of life purpose, life attitude and life value.

Everyone's outlook on life changes at different times. The external cause of this change is the increasingly crazy world, which leads to changes in many people's intuition and feelings, and produces a misplaced outlook on life and so on, which is perhaps an unavoidable problem brought about by the development of the human world.

In the natural world, the outlook on life is indisputable, survival first, survival first; in the class society and the system, the outlook on life there is progress and backwardness, with a distinctive class, different classes have different outlooks on life.

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There have been the following representative outlooks on life in human history:

1) Hedonistic outlook on life. It starts from the biological instincts of human beings, attributes human life to the process of satisfying human physiological needs, and proposes that the pursuit of sensual pleasures and the maximum satisfaction of material enjoyment of life are the only purpose of life.

②Misanthropic view of life. Religious misanthropy believes that life is an abyss of suffering, full of all kinds of trouble and pain, and that the only way to be truly liberated is to get rid of vulgarity and extinguish desires.

3 asceticism. It regards human desires, especially physical desires, as the root of all evils and advocates the extermination of human desires and the practice of asceticism.

④ Happiness-ist view of life. One viewpoint emphasizes that personal happiness is the highest purpose and value of life; another viewpoint emphasizes personal happiness as well as the happiness of others and the happiness of the public ****, and believes that the pursuit of public **** happiness is the highest purpose and value of life.

⑤Optimistic outlook on life. It believes that the future of social development is bright, and that the purpose of life lies in the pursuit of social civilization and progress, in the pursuit of truth, and holds a positive and optimistic attitude towards life.

6 ****productivist outlook on life. It is the scientific outlook on life of the proletariat. It regards the course of human life activity as the process of recognizing and transforming the objective world, and regards the elimination of capitalism, the realization of ****productivism, and working for the benefit of the vast majority of the people as the noble purpose of life and the greatest happiness. The value and significance of life lies in the responsibility and contribution to society, and the greatest value and significance of life lies in the effort to serve the people and selflessly contribute all one's energy to the cause of ****analism.