Research On Hu Shih’s "History Of Chinese Philosophy"

Hu Shih believed that “the character biography is a source of history”, research onthe key figures who can effect a whole country and its people can take law to thesociety, and also for future reference. Hu Shih, get both praise and blame, worths to beconsidered as such historical figure in chinese modern ideological history, even fromthe narrow perspective of academic research.Hu Shih’s knowledge is rich, involving politics, literature, history, philosophy,education and other fields,but only the history of Chinese philosophy bounding intonumerous books.However, its significance is not in quantity, mainly relys on thecontributions: Used modern point of views to organize the legency of chinesephilosophy that changed the chaotic situation. Advanced the development of Chinesephilosophy from the horizontal and promoted the communication with Westernphilosophy. With opening atmosphere, he created Chinese philosophical paradigmbased on the culture of standard, which showed and then completed the internalprocess of Chinese philosophy modernization.Hu Shih’s theory and practice on the study of “History of Chinese philosophy” hasnever pause. First of all, the author uses the method of segmentation research. on theone hand, mainly inspected the staging of Hu Shih’s“History of Chinese philosophy”,system arrangement, start-up, steering theory, mature period, on the other hand,analysed the content of Hu Shih’s “History of Chinese philosophy” detaily,explainedthe logic system of the Qin ’s thought,verified the theoretical origin of the medievalperiod school,unearthed the science tradition from China academic history. Secondly,the author uses the “comprehensive research method”, focuses on the quality of HuShih’s “History of Chinese philosophy”: subject consciousness, experimentalism as theguiding, attention for the scientific method. Finally, the author treats the study of HuShih’s “History of Chinese philosophy” as a whole object, made a fair, rational analysison it: On the one hand, Hu Shi’s “History of Chinese philosophy” opened academicatmosphere from the ideological content and paradigm, pushed modern transformationof Chinese philosophy forward. On the other hand, many scholars suspect Hu Shih’s“History of Chinese philosophy” in the history of China problem and his treatment,which exposed the "inherent limitation of scientific method".