论孙星衍的学术思想与用世精神

On Sun Xingyan's Academic Thought and Pragmatic Spirit

孙星衍是乾嘉时期一位著名的考据学者,同时也是一位有着突出用世精神的学者。他主张人才出于经术,通经由于训诂,考据乃是有益于政治的实用之学。在治学实践和仕途生涯中,他将对典章制度的考据与对时务的思考结合在一起,以所学用之于实事,充分体现了通经致治的精神,并取得了一定的成效。

Sun Xingyan, as a famous textual scholar in the period of Emperors Qianglong ＆ Jiaqing, projected himself by his prominent pragmatic spirit. He assumed that talents with abilities must start from classics study by means of textual criticism and scholium for textual, criticism was benefit to politics. In the course of pursuing his studies, he considered the social problems as well as the institutions and systems in classics. He was successful in applying the classics to practice, and embodied the spirit of managing state affairs through understanding Confucian classics.