顾炎武思想的历史地位和历史命运

On the Historical Position and Fate of Gu Yanwu Thought

顾炎武是中国17世纪伟大的早期启蒙思想家。在以清代明的历史条件下,他认真总结明王朝覆灭的历史教训,重新审视中国传统社会的经济、政治和思想文化,以“明体适用”、“引古筹今”的远见卓识,汇集三千年中国历史上志士仁人论道经邦的优秀智慧,批判继承晚明以来中国社会的新思潮,在哲学思想、史学思想、道德伦理思想、经济政治思想、宗教思想和文学思想诸方面都作出了新的理论创造。他的学术成就,使他成为继往开来的一代学术宗师;而他的理论创造,则对于晚清的思想解放运动和社会改革运动发生了深刻的影响。

Mr Gu Yanwu was a great enlightener and thinker of China in the 17th century.With the background of the replacement of the Ming Dynasty by the Qing Dynasty,Mr Gu gave a good summary of the historical lessons of the collapse of the Ming dynasty and reevaluated the economy,politics,ideology and culture of the Chinese tradition and proposed the far-sighted idea of learning the past for the future.He summarized the wisdom of the great men in the past 3,000 years in China and critically inherited the new ideas since the late Ming Dynasty in China.His new theoretical contributions to philosophy,history,ethics,economy,politics,religion and literature made him a great master of learning and exerted a far-reaching influence on the ideological emancipation and the social reform in the late Qing Dynasty.