严复早期救亡思想述略

On Saving National Thought of Yenfu's Early Life

19世纪末的中国面临严重的危机,作为一位曾留学西方的思想家,严复在此时提出了一系列救亡图存的主张。他通过进化论的视角,分析了中国危机的严重性,要求学习西方,提高国民素质,提倡自由平等。在严复的这些主张中,我们可以同时看到激进和保守这两种思想的身影。

When China was in crisis in the late 19th century, Yenfu, who had studied in the West, presented several propositions on how to make China survive. He analysed the severity in a view of evolutionism and asked for learning from the West, enhancing basic qualities of Chinese people and advocating freedom and equality. We can find the coexistence of both radical and conservative thoughts in those Yenfu's propositions.