On Sun Yat-Sen's Liberty Thought

In the second half of 1990s, a lot of scholars in China recur to liberalism, who want to ruminate over and spark plug the liberalism in Chinese language situation, in order that they re- survey the spirit and value of the liberalism. And ruminate over our nation's gain and loss about the theory and practice on the liberalism. From the first of the 1920s until the contemporary era, people continue to thinking over the "liberty". The modern thinkers' view on "liberty" is significant during the course of transformation of Chinese modern idea.As a discharger and thinker, Mrs. shun have his particular idea on liberty and face the same dilemma as the Chinese modern intelligentsia , He is puzzled about the idea of liberty, the relationship between liberalism and the Chinese traditional culture, and the relationship between individual liberty and national dependence. But he still his own idea: The concept "Liberty" incline to unconstraint and do as one wants; Chinese have sufficient freedom from of old, and be in a state of disunity; Individual has redundant freedom, otherwise the nation of Chinese is lacking of independence, so the national independence should be complete, besides the personal freedom may be limited or sacrifice personal freedom for the national independence. Today, our study on his liberty thought will benefit the reactionary transformation and utilitarian exertion of the liberalism during the course of Chinese modernization.The thesis is divided into six parts:â… . It is the preface of the thesis.â…¡. On the eve of the introduction into China of the western liberalism thought, the state of people's idea and ideology is complicated, including the extension of the Chinese traditional thought and the new trend of learning from the western nations.â…¢. Use the pair of Chinese philosophy concept "reason", "potential" to discuss the perplexed evolvement of the Chinese neoteric trend of thought, the profound tradition of history and culture and social background.â…£. Discuss Sun Yat-Sen's theory on liberty, including the idea on the concept-liberty'; the conclusion about whether Chinese is free; the difficult choice between the individual liberty and national independence.â…¤. Probe into the contribution and end-result of his theory on liberty, and the perplexed history of the Chinese modern thought.â…¥. This is the latter end of the thesis.