“新民”思想新论

A Discussion on Thought of New Citizen

20世纪前后维新派知识分子在西方近代社会有机体理论的影响下,开始从文明主体——国民——的角度探求挽救民族危机的新路径。他们从"力"、"智"、"德"素质结构的角度塑造了符合时代要求的国民新形象,开启了近代国民性改造思潮。但是,民族危机的时代背景以及他们对西方文明认识的局限性,使得"新民"思想并没有深入到人的现代化的实质层面,而是带有浓厚的民族主义特征。

At the turn of 20th century,under the influences of theory on social organism the intellectuals of reformist faction began to search for new route to save the national crisis from the perspective of the main body of civilization,namely the citizens.They molded a new national image keeping pace with the times from the angle of ＂the strength＂,＂the wisdom＂ and ＂the moral＂,thus opening thoughts of remoulding Chinese national character.However,the thought of new citizen didn’t go deep into the substance of modernization of human being,and had characteristic of nationalism due to the national crisis at that time and the limitation of their knowledge on Western civilization.