Abstract:Leisure has its special status and significance in the philosophical domain.Aristotle established leisure as an original source of Western philosophy,and ascribed leisure to a kind of rational spiritual life containing wisdom,golden mean and pleasure.From the standpoint of human right,Fichte determined leisure as holy and inalienable absolute right of the individual,and greatly enhanced the significance of labor for leisure and mankind itself.Finally,Marx improved and developed essentially the view of leisure of predecessors with his dialectical materialism and practical position.He analyzed the relation of leisure and labor in the earlier capitalist society from the view of alienation,and took leisure as dialectical unification of itself and labor,as a necessary condition to realize human free and comprehensive development.He emphasized that developing productive power is the fundamental means to increase leisure.