社會存在

Chinese

		society; community; class	to exist; to be; to be present to exist; to be; to be present; existence; being; presence
trad. (社會存在)		社會	存在
simp. (社会存在)		社会	存在

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shèhuì cúnzài

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄜˋ ㄏㄨㄟˋ ㄘㄨㄣˊ ㄗㄞˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shèhuì cúnzài
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄜˋ ㄏㄨㄟˋ ㄘㄨㄣˊ ㄗㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shèhuèi cúnzài
    • Wade–Giles: shê⁴-hui⁴ tsʻun²-tsai⁴
    • Yale: shè-hwèi tswún-dzài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shehhuey tswentzay
    • Palladius: шэхуэй цуньцзай (šɛxuej cunʹczaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹ t͡sʰu̯ən³⁵ t͡saɪ̯⁵¹/

Noun

社會存在

1. (philosophy) social existence; social being

   • 馬克思說：「不是人們的意識決定人們的存在，而是人們的社會存在決定人們的意識。」 [MSC, trad.]
     马克思说：「不是人们的意识决定人们的存在，而是人们的社会存在决定人们的意识。」 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1940, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《新民主主義論》 (On New Democracy), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Mǎkèsī shuō: “Bùshì rénmen de yìshí juédìng rénmen de cúnzài, érshì rénmen de shèhuì cúnzài juédìng rénmen de yìshí.” [Pinyin]

     Marx says, "It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness."