梁启超与五四新文化运动

Liang Qichao and the May 4th New Culture Movement

以往研究对梁启超在五四新文化运动中所发挥的积极作用评价过低。其实五四时期的梁启超并不保守,他坚决支持文学革命并身体力行,是陈独秀、胡适在白话文运动中的同道;他一如既往地坚持资产阶级宪政理想,维护民主政体,同时不再仅仅把民主作为政体变革的目标,而是将其作为人与人之间平等关系的新的伦理精神和人们应享有的自由权利的价值理想,他服膺科学精神,反对科学万能,主张科学与人文相协调,体现了对待科学的理性态度;他为引进新知识、传播新文化、促进中西文化交流所做的工作在五四新知识界中无一人能望其项背。梁启超的言行与五四新文化运动的主题、内容完全合拍,他理应被视为五四新文化运动的积极支持者、五四新文化阵营的重要成员。

It had been appraised lowly what Liang Qichao had done during the May 4th New Culture Movement. Actually, he had done some positive things as following during this period: He participated in the movement of Literary Revolution to promote writings in vernacular Chinese with Chen Duxiu and Hu Shi. He advocated the bourgeois constitutionalism while he took democracy as not only the goal of political reformation but also the people's basic right. He had a rational attitude towards science since he believed in the spirit of science objectively and the harmony between science and humanities but to oppose the thought that science being panacea. He was the most important new scholar for propagating the new culture and importing the Western new ideas during this period. Liang Qichao should be regarded as one of the most important members in the May 4th new culture movement since his words and deeds were instep with the theme and contents of the May 4th Movement.