夏道平对自由的厘定与阐发

Xia Daoping's Explanation and Definition of Liberty

夏道平为20世纪五六十年代台湾地区自由知识分子的重要代表,作为一位自由主义的政治经济学家,从现实问题入手,抨击国民党在台湾的威权统治,同时很注意从本质规定性上把握自由的内涵,并将这个内涵努力在思想上落实到经济、政治、文化各层面,主张充分的市场经济,真正的民主政治和适应时代的现代文化,在近代中国思想史上留下了深刻而有启示性的印迹。

Xia Daoping is an important representative of liberal intellectuals in Taiwan in the 1950s and 1960s. As a liberalist political economist, he attacked the Kuomintang＇s rule in Taiwan from the perspective of realistic problems, paid much attention to the connotation of liberty from its essential definition, and made great efforts to put this connotation into every aspect of economy, politics and culture in order to advocate sufficient market economy and real democracy politics and modern culture adapting to the times,which has left a profound and enlightened trace in modern ideological history of China.