On Long Yingtai's Thinking

Longyingtai is one of the most famous contemporary thinkers andcritics in Taiwan. Both her works and the echoes her works bring aboutin the society are worthy of our attentions and studies.As a mature intellectual with unflagging conscience, Longyingtaishows the uppermost respect of the lives and paysgreat attention to humanbeings' living conditions. Because of her respect of lives, she keepsaway from the authorities and stays together with the disadvantaged andfringe groups, fighting for more rights for them. And because of herattention to human beings, she tries to study the relationships amongthe existence of human beings, the society, the history and the culture,hoping to find out a way to the freedom and the equality through thedistressful history of human beings.The questions Longyingtai raises often bring about strong echoes inthe society, which is also worthy of studying. In fact, her values emergemore clearly through the heated discussions she bring about. Echoesreflect the questions are closely related to people and reveal thesignificance of the questions; furthermore, discussions can inspirepeople's thinking, which will help them catch the whole visions of thethings, find out bran-new point of view and thinking mode. These qualitiesare indispensable for people to become mature and acquire perfectindividualities.