Abstract： In the west,the study on people was started in ancient Greece in early times.But it studied people mainly on the basis of the relations between the man and nature,the man and deity.In the Medieval,the research on people itself became the one which studied how God created man,given that people was regarded as God’s servant.The comprehensive and professional research on people is in the modern time.However,all the studies in west,whether Renaissance of French enlightenment philosophy and German classical philosophy,studied the essence of peope in the abstract perspectives and revealed people’s essence in congenital perspectives,without studying the man from specific view of social relations,social practices and historic and cultural condition.The concept about "realistic person" was explained comprehensively by Marx and Engels in their works.The central spirit of the concept incarnated in the proposition of "people’s essence is the sum of all social relations" was promoted by Marx.
2007, Vol. 38 
