The Research Into Yanfu's View Of Ideology And Culture

Yanfu, a great thinker at the end of Qing Dynasty, is a giant in the field of thinking, culture and education in China. At the changeable age many ambitious people made great efforts constantly and researched for their motherland. At the atmosphere, Yanfu combined the Chinese and western knowledge. His view of ideology and culture and deep thoughts became the accelerator in the process of traditional Chinese culture changed into the modern one. Considering saving the country as his responsibility and well versed in things past and present, Yanfu read cursorily and extensively the essences of Chinese and western culture knowledge. He paid attention to the effect of cultural background on realistic society. He became the first to introduce the evolutionism to China, and at the same time propagated the updated western theories, such as civil rights and the idea of equality, etc. The historic feat made the traditional culture break through the limited boundary of nation, which had great significance for the development of Chinese modern culture history.The whole thesis is divided into three parts except the foreword:Chapter One The sketch of Yanfu's view on thoughts and culture This chapter emphasized Yanfu brought the western thoughts of evolutionism into China, Meanwhile, he propagated the western theories, such as civil rights and the idea of equality, etc. That is his great contributions to the development of Chinese modern culture. The feat got the traditional culture to break through the limited connotation of nation, which had richer modern meanings.Chapter Two Yanfu's comparative study of Chinese and western culture Using the evolutionism as thinking weapons and the national interests as the measure of value, Yanfu did thoroughly comparative study. Those therefore made his thoughts have the characteristics of patriotism, contemporaneity Era and criticism. Firstly, he pointed out the difference in cognitive object and studying methods between Chinese and western culture in the aspect of epistemology. Secondly, he threw light on the distinction in the view of development between Chinese and western culture. Finally, he disclosed the difference in social political ideology and Ethics between the two.Chapter Three Changes of Yanfu's view of ideology and culture in his late years and the inspiration to the posterity. The changes are revealed in the following aspects. Firstly, the Doctrine of back to the ancients in moral views. He insisted that loyalty, filial piety, humanity and rightness should be regarded as the spirit of the country's building, and he greatly propagated Confucius's thoughts. Secondly, he disapproved of the"Theory of natural rights"and he thought that autocracy should be taken. Thirdly, he was disappointed at the western culture and looked forward to the renaissance of Confucianism. Meanwhile, he had to acknowledge the progress of western science and technology.The author tried to deeply research into Yanfu's cultural view by putting it into the vertical abscissa of history. First,Yanfu's cultural view couldn't break through the limitation of the history of his own family his life background. So it is quite not easy to inherit the precious Chinese culture heritage in that varied age. Then at the basis of having some acquaintance with western culture, he brought the advanced thoughts and culture into China and accelerating the waking up of the earthly people. Modern China is quite changeable. Under such conditions, making a systematic research on Yanfu's ideology and culture view can promote people to learn more about scholars'claim for an ideal that the people are noble and the country prosperous in modern China. Yanfu's research and constitution of the modern humane spirits have made great contributions. What he did not only amazingly liberated people's thoughts and influenced thought theoreticians one generation after another, but also has important realistic meanings to our building of humane spirits nowadays.