Research On Yan Fu And Eastern And Western Value Concept

At the last reign of Qing dynasty, the Great West Powers' intruder has made their culture attack on Chinese native culture strongly. At that time, the intellectual class had to react to the attack. One of the most essential factors that made up the culture is value. The core distinction in different cultures is the diversity of value concept and value system. Facing with the huge attack of western culture, we were bound to reconstruct own value in that time. The value concept revolution is a long course. In that course we have to develop what is useful or healthy and discard what is not, and we must optionally accept western value. Both of the two tasks are naturally surrounding the three pairs of traditional basic values—Heaven and Man, Group and Self, Justice and Benefit. This article has mainly express Yan Fu's optional culture value reconstruction from the debate of Heaven and Man, Group and Self, Justice and Benefit when facing the clash of eastern and western culture.This article has been divided into four parts:First, the debate on Heaven and Man. It can demonstrate Yan Fu's international evolution concept and libertinism from the conflict between Chinese traditional authoritirism and western liberty principle.Second, the debate on Group and Self. It can express Yan Fu's own concept of democratic rights and equality from the conflict between Chinese traditional patriarchal clan system and western concept of democratic rights and equality.Third, the debate on Justice and Benefit. It can express Yan Fu's value of rational self-benefit from the conflict between Chinese traditional one-side-emphasis on justice and western concept of utilitarianism.At last, the conflict and the reconstruction. Yan Fu has faithfully believes that we must from a history and presentation detangle to create a new culture system and to find a culture factor that can make a integration of eastern and western culture. After development in the integration, we can finally create a new culture value system. Yan's concept has gotten through a obvious away-and-back course. This article...