论重点大学文科的社会功能与历史使命──改革开放以来南京大学文科部分有重大影响的科研成果回顾

The Social Functions and Historical Missions of Liberal Arts in Key Universities

改革开放以来南京大学文科取得了以“实践标准”为代表的一系列有重大影响的科研成果。它们的产生既离不开社会的大环境，也得益于南大自身的小环境。它们的出现，昭示出重点大学文科的社会功能和历史使命就在于是社会的“思想库”和“学术基地”。为了完成这一社会功能和历史使命，必须坚决贯彻“双百方针”，倡导实事求是的科学态度，反对“政治实用主义”和“经济实用主义”，并充分尊重文科发展的特殊规律。

Since the beginning of China's reform and opening to the outside world, Nanjing University has made a series of influential research achievements in liberal arts that are represented by the debate of "Practice as the Sole Criterion for Testing Truth". The production of these achieve- ments owes itself not only to the macro environment of society but also to the microenvironment of the University itself. Their emergence shows that the social functions and historical missions of liberal arts in key universities lie in the provision of "thinking tanks" and "academic bases". For these so- cial functions and historical missions to be accomplished, great efforts must be made to implement the policy of "letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thoughts contend", to pro- mote the scientific attitude of seeking truth from facts, and to fight against "political pragmatism" and "economic pragmatism". Furthermore,due respects must be paid to the particular pattern of development of liberal arts.