严复早、中期思想(1895—1911)的定位

The Position of Yan Fu's Thought in His Early and Middle Periods

严复早、中期思想是围绕爱国救亡来构建理论体系,他主张文化启蒙,政治上既不是革命派,也非改良派。严复大力提倡西学,并以此为批判中学的工具,但他并未全面否定中国传统文化,而是主张中西并举,文化融通。

Yan Fu＇s thought in his early and middle periods was to establish a theoretical system round the patriotics and national salvation. He advocated cultural enlightenment. In political grouping, he was neither a revolutionary nor a reformist. Yan Fu devoted major efforts to encouraging Western learning, and he regarded it as a tool to criticize Chinese learning. But he did not yet fully negate Chinese traditional culture and he only advocated the simultaneous development of Chinese and Western cultures and the communion of cultures.