重新认识严复的自由主义者的特质

Rethinking Yan Fu's Charactericistics of Liberalists

严复是中国近代史上的重要人物,其重要性足与他在思想文化领域作出了开创性贡献的历史地位相关联。严复的一生的确对多种社会思潮都提出了自己的见解,但严复既不是一个全盘西化论者,又不是严格意义上的权威主义者,也不是纯正的自由主义者。严复在特定的时期宣扬过的思想并不能成为对其一生评价的借口。严复一生都没有脱离他所处的年代决定的探索救亡的历程,其终生执著的信念就是“救国为体,中西学为用”,“中西并重、交融互释”,不附势、不逐流,认定用渐进改造的方式探索为中国救亡的出路。综合来说,严复是一位从思想文化领域着手,以改良主义道路救国的思想家。

Yan Fu is an important figure in modern Chinese history. His significance is associated with his contribution to the field of ideology and culture All through his fife, he advanced his own viewpoint about various ethos, but he is not a person who believed in overall westernization, nor one who had faith in autbority in a strict sense, nor a pure libemlist. His tboughts in a certain period can not be used as an excuse to evaluate his life. He didn＇t break away from the procedure of exploration to save China. In a word, Yan Fu is a thinker who made an attempt to save China by reformtion in the field of ideology and culture.