A Study Of Yi Baisha's Life And Thought

Yi Baisha is a well-known bourgeois-democratic revolutionary in modern days, he is also an important representative of the New Culture Movement. He was active in revolutionary activities,at the same time, from a cultural Scholars'perspective, had a lot of thinking for the future of China. And he used the language of doctrinal interpretation and formed a distinctive ideas in order to explore the road of salvaging the country.His academic works include a rich ideological content:Political, cultural, philosophical thinking. Yi Baisha's political ideas include democracy ideas and national ideas. He criticized the feudal autocratic politics, promoting democracy and the rule of law and held the banner of patriotism, against the unjust war. He was looking for resources of services for reality from the traditional doctrine, taking it as the ideological weapon against feudal autocracy, promoting democracy, equality, ang rule of law. Yi Baisha respected Mohists doctrine, Criticised Confucianism, Opposed to academic tyranny, Put forward valuable insights and ideas about the Relationship of National Culture and Confucianism, traditional culture and modern culture, Eastern culture and Western cultral, and provided a reference to cultural construction today. His ideas have a distinct materialistic tendency and speculative color. He held highly his "personality liberation" banner, promoting the awakening of individual consciousness, Promoting human freedom, recogning individual value, attempting liberating human nature from a variety of relations of personal dependence, so he established the values of the bourgeois individual departmentalism. There were some limitations in his thought.He commited suicide finally, because he can not see the future of the revolution. But the strong sense of political responsibility, high degree social awareness and concern and valuable spirit of exploration in him, is worthy of recognition.