Europe Political Thought Transformation And Chinese Elements During The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment was an important ideological liberation movement in European history . The campaign open the door to modernization for the Europe, and have had a profound effect on the development of European and world historyt. During this period, accompanied by the growing capitalist economy, various political theories which reflecting the requirements of bourgeoisie are sprang up. As superstructure, political thoughts embodies the socio-economic development trends and the social status of the internal structure profoundly. And thus through the study of the transformation of European political thoughts in Enlightenment ,we can have more in-depth understanding of social development in that period, and summed up the characteristics of its social transformation. Furthermore, the Enlightenment is also a period of the eastern civilization spread to the west, , Enlightenment thinkers are based on the realities of European society to explore the various issues, But they begin to look beyond Europe to draw nutrition from variety of foreign ingredients, and Chinese elements is one of the most important of the ingredients. Study the Enlightenment thinkers'attitude for Chinese in the period of political and ideological transformation, on the one hand we can conclude that the Enlightenment thinkers how to use the external things to help them achieve their political ideals, on the other hand it can also provide us with a new understanding way of Chinese culture.