The Modhism Background Of Convertion From Enlightenment To Revolution

Nowadays , the research approaches with which the academic circles treat enlightenment thoughts are mostly fixed eyes upon western resources. Compared with China's enlightenment, they discover kinds of differences and attribute the enlightenment's failure to the static research ways of Confucian tradition. However, Pierre Bourdieu's field theory provides new angel for enlightenment research. From the mutual correspondence and developing stages of the three capitals in the same field, he analyses dynamically the whole enlightenment process in China's modern times. The Mohism thoughts is the earliest representative of Shang culture in the homeland. From the analysis of its field characteristics and its developing stages, we can find more about the similar evolvement process and thoughts dislocation originated from modern enlightenment forerunners' understanding on the Chinese and western field developing stages, and also we can compare China's enlightenment and western enlightenment more effectively to find origins of enlightenment's failure in the modern times of China and of its converting into revolution. Moreover, the analysis provides more effective native resources and the reference in the process of dynamic development for enlightenment research.Chapter one: Mohist's thoughts:—'mutual benefits' and 'love for all' and the western enlightenment trend of thoughts have the similar capital circulatory logic. Nevertheless, when the capital increase logic can not be taken in by the realistic mechanism, the dual-composite reproduction mechanism will come into existence which leads Mohist thoughts to the paradox.Chapter two explores the integration of Modhism with Western science in the modernization process of China. Under the pressure of invasion of western powers, the Modhism enjoys its renaissance. And in this process, it has been held as the wealth of enlightenment for modern China . However, the western elements of the integration inspires the enlightenment intellectuals to think beyond their times. As their thoughts have shown the characteristics of multiple complexes, it leads to the transformation from the enlightenment to the revolution.The failure of enlightenment made the cultural resources brought from all fields in the western countries can't gain the possibility of converting into reality, can not realize their modern targets in the core of 'democracy and equality' and made them obviously sink into more serious 'anxious mental state'. When 'socialism theory' appeared as a more perfect cultural resource than the existing capitalism culture and gained the feasibility verification in the Russia October Revolution,enlightenment intellectuals obviously find the resources which are more close to their modernization aim and they eagerly converted enlightenment into revolution(class fights).