Yan Fu's Thought To Chinese Philosophical Transform In Modern Times

Yan Fu is illuminating thinker who firstly comprehended western culture in deed. The study about his thinking is relatively thorough in the academe, but the study toward the relation between his thinking and Chinese modern philosophical transform isn't systemic and thorough enough. Yan Fu impacted the Chinese traditional philosophy in many aspects, by right of his profound traditional academic essentials of basic training and through translation and reproduction to some important western academic works. Yan Fu absorbed western liberalism on the base of animadversion on the Chinese traditional society: the authority of kismet, emperor and Confucian ethic main-stays, and promoting the modern transform of Chinese philosophy in the thinking pattern and the viewpoint of value. Through inducting western utilitarian, Yan Fu accomplished moral principle replaced by beneficial principle and changed traditional philosophical the perspective of humanity and the relation of morality and profit, so formed the transform of philosophy. On the other hand, Yan Fu attached importance to scientific rationalism .He promoted the transform of ontology,epistemology and methodology in Chinese philosophy through translating" evolution and ethics" and western logical works. Yan Fu's thinking not only having enlighten the benighted function at that time, and engendered far-reaching effect to the New Culture Movement and so on, especially toward philosophical study more rationally and objectively today, which having huge use for reference to accomplishing Chinese philosophical modern transform.