Yan Fu's Liberty And Lao Zhuang's Thought

The paper do the case study of Yan Fu's liberty on the relationship with Lao Zhuang's thought.Yan Fu was called "The best person on weatern learning" and he had own deep understanding and original view about the west.He belivevd and publicized evolution theory,on the basis of that he elucidated his own liberalism.The main source of Yan Fu's thought was the west but he was affected deeply by the Chinese traditional culture,especially the Lao Zhuang's thought.Onthe evolution viewpoint:one hand,Lao Zhuang's naturalview provided the background for Yan Fu to containment the western theory and then he could expand the evolution theory.On another hand,Yan Fu discribed his evolutionism of history in the way of criticized Lao Zhuang's degradation of history.On the liberty,Yan Fu argued that ZhuangZi had the similar temperament with the western liberty.He said that YangZhu was ZhuangZi and affirmed YangZhu's theory had emphasized the individual ultimate value.At the same time,Yan Fu rebut the damage of taoism abuses and reaffirmed his liberalism.On the philosophy freedom:Yan Fu thought that freedom was an moral spiritual pursuit and he understood Lao Zhuang at this significance also.Lao Zhuang's thought was both ideological source and the tool for introducing the western thought.By Yan Fu's interpretation creatively,Lao Zhuang's thought played a role of intermediary and the integration between western and chinese culture became an important part of Yan Fu's liberty.