戴震:前清学术之集大成者

Dai Zhen:Epitomizer of the Qing-Dynasty Learning

戴震是前清学术集大成者。他继承明清之际思想家们反对理学的传统,对程朱理学“以理杀人”虚伪残忍的本质进行了激烈的抨击。他对清儒的繁琐考据,宋儒的凭己臆说和汉儒的墨守家法均有所批判,坚持“空所依傍,唯求其是”的学术主张,为中国文化思想史作出了卓越的贡献。

Dai Zhen epitomized the academic learning of the Qing Dynasty.He inherited thetradition against the Confucian idealist philosophy of the thinkers between the Qing andMing dynasties,launching a drastic attack on the hypocratic and cruel nature of Zheng-Zhu Idealism as“killing people with Confucianism”.His criticism is also directedagainst the scholastic textual research of the Qing scholars,the subjective assumption ofthe Song scholars and the adherence to conventions by the Han scholars.He insisted onthe academic principle of“seeking truth from facts without relying upon authority”,whch is an outstanding contribution to the cultural and ideological history of China.