改良的底线——“体用”、“道器”与郑观应思想

The Bottom Line for Reform ——the Thought of Zheng Guanying and the Doctrine of Chinese Learning as Essence, Western Learning as Utilities, the Dichotomy Between Dao and Qi

与洋务派官员相比,晚清改良主义思想家郑观应将"中体西用说"推进到"道器说",率先将变革的内涵由经济技术层面扩展到政治体制变革,是对当时洋务派官员思想局限的一个理论突破,但另一方面,郑观应仍然固守着对儒教和道教的理论核心"道"的执着追求和信仰。对道的迷信和对以基督教为核心之一的西方文明的本能排斥成为以郑观应为代表之一的晚清改良主义思想家的思想特征和最后精神底线。

Compared with the reformist bureaucrats during the Tongzhi Restoration, the late Qing reformist thinker Zheng Guanying pushed the doctrine of'Chinese Learning as essence, Western Learning as utilities'forward to the dichotomy between Dao and Qi, which can be seen as a breakthrough of the contemporary Chinese mind. However, Zheng Guanying still stuck to his fervent belief in Dao as the core of Confucianism and Taoism. The loyalty to the Dao and the antagonism towards Christianity became the distinguished trait of late Qing reformist thinkers and their intellectual bottom line.