Study On The Valuing Citizen Idea Of The Early Capitalist Reformers

The early reform-group are some patriotic and value-people thinkers. There appeared a kind of new value-people thought which different from traditional basic-people thinking in their claims about political reform and self-renewal, when the foreign-movement and Chinese capitalism took place. This article analysis and study into the value-people thought of early reform-group with many kinds of methods, such as textual criticism, real example, comparing, class analysis and qualitative analysis, etc, try hard to have accurate assurance to this progressive thought.The article has mainly been divided into three parts:First, the history background and the thought source of the early reformist's value-people thought. Under the national crisis of the era background and on the basis of the production and the development of the domestic capitalism, the early reformists'value-people thought produces, with the Chinese and Western cultural exchanges deeply. This thought mainly come from two respects: One is the traditional based-on people thought, It is the thick ground of the early reformists'value-people thought, including the Chinese earlier based-on people thought and the new based-on people thought in the period between Ming and Qing Dynasty. The other is western system and ideas of democratic politics, economy and education. They are the important factors which make the early reformists'value-people thought break through the traditional based-on people thought and the new based-on people thought to innovate to some extent.Second, the basic contents of the early reformists'value-people thought. This is the main part of this article, which was described from four respects. First, attack the particular of the Monarch and break the high and low misunderstanding between the Monarch and the nationality. Second, put forward various measures of limiting the monarch's rights, which weakened the monarch's rights and improved the people's rights oppositely. Third, on the basis of changing some traditional ideas, they put forward new ideas of"rich people"included modern capitalism contents. Fourth, they lay claim to adopt the new style of education to develop and educate the people, to raise people's ability and character, and to inspire people's intelligence.Third, the characteristics and the history position of the early reform-group'value-people thought. The early reformists'value-people thought mainly have following three characteristics: Obvious transition;patriotic nature; the inside connection and unbalances of each content. The early reformists'value-people thought have an important history position on the modern history of thought. First, it is the important marking breakthrough the foreign-movement. The next, many principles of the early reformists'value-people thought were inherited and developed by the reform-group became their thought foundation. The thought of"people's rights"," people's livelihood"," people's intellingence" in the peirod of WuXu exactly continue and develope this kind of value-people thought.