章太炎社会思想述略

On the Social Thought of Zhang Taiyan

在清末,西方社会学及社会思想开始传入中国,为国人近代社会观的形成提供了新的思想来源。章太炎就是近代中国最早接受这种学说,提出新的社会观的学者之一。章太炎的社会观固然深受西方社会学思想的影响,但又不为其所囿,而是在自己理解的基础上,融入了进化论、历史学、政治学以及传统儒学、诸子学、佛学等思想内容,形成他对人类社会起源、组合、发展、变迁以及批判现实社会、追求理想社会等问题的一整套独特看法,在中国近代思想史上占有重要地位。

The age which Zhang Taiyan lived is the late of Qing Dynasty when the sociology and social thought of the west has been introduced into China. Zhang Taiyan was deeply influenced by these thoughts. He fused the evolutionism, Confucianism, Buddhaism and other Chinese traditional thoughts together and formed his own theories concerning the historiography and politics of China, such as the origin of human society, the formation, development and evolution of human society and the criticize on the reality of society. He also puts forward an ideal society of future.