On Yan Fu's Rational Thinking and His Enlightenment in China
Yan Zhang
Abstract
Yan Zhang
Abstract
In the late 19th and early 20th century,when the calamity-ridden Chinese nation is in a precarious situation,the internal and external problems,Yan Fu in light of its own will-the theoretical advantages of Chinese and Western experience and practice,and points out that get rid of the feudal autocracy that education and the cows body with horse Westernization of the long-term education shackles,eliminate its pernicious influence,carried out the education of science,is an important means for the prosperity of the country.This rational thinking and enlightenment to open people's wisdom,to broadening people's horizons,to correct people's ignorance,to false arrogance to overcome the bad habit of exaggeration and the formation of national moral ideas,have an immeasurable effect,to China's ideology and culture of innovation and progress is also important.
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In the late 19th and early 20th century,when the calamity-ridden Chinese nation is in a precarious situation,the internal and external problems,Yan Fu in light of its own will-the theoretical advantages of Chinese and Western experience and practice,and points out that get rid of the feudal autocracy that education and the cows body with horse Westernization of the long-term education shackles,eliminate its pernicious influence,carried out the education of science,is an important means for the prosperity of the country.This rational thinking and enlightenment to open people's wisdom,to broadening people's horizons,to correct people's ignorance,to false arrogance to overcome the bad habit of exaggeration and the formation of national moral ideas,have an immeasurable effect,to China's ideology and culture of innovation and progress is also important.
Key concepts: Enlightenment, Westernization, China, Ideology, Ignorance, Feudalism, Prosperity, Exaggeration