殷海光现代知识分子观述评

Review of Yin Hai-guang's Opinions about Modern Intellectual

殷海光在对中国近现代历史深入观察和了解的基础上,对中国的知识分子问题进行了深刻反思,他批判传统主义,引入自由主义,通过对传统主义与自由主义的双重吸收和反思,寻找中国文化的出路的同时,也重新思考了中国知识分子的历史资源,试图在知识和人格的基础上为现代知识分子建立其社会的立足点。尽管殷海光已经是20世纪的人物,但他对知识分子的这些论述,而今看来依然有其跨世纪的意义,值得我们进一步思考。

Based on in-depth observations and understandings of Chinese modern history,Yin Hai-guang reflected profoundly on China's intellectual. He introduced the liberalism by criticizing the traditionalism. Through both absorptions of and reflections on traditionalism and liberalism,he tried to find out the outlet for the Chinese culture. He also rethought the Chinese intellectual's historic resources,attempting to establish its social standpoint based on the knowledge and the personality for modern intellectual. Although Yin Hai-guang was a figure in the 20th century,his opinions about the intellectual is still of its cross-century significance,worthy of our further thinking.