对于社会思潮研究若干问题的反思

Reflections on Some Problems concerning the Study of Social Thoughts

当今中国,思潮丛生,而对于思潮的研究也是长短不一、形态万千。当前对思潮研究存在一些问题,如对于"思潮"一词的运用太过于宽泛,社会思潮的研究边界模糊,中国当代社会思潮研究与世界思潮研究、宗教思潮的研究结合不够紧密。而对于"社会思潮研究方法",应该运用从抽象上升到具体的研究方法,坚持历史辩证法主、客体相结合的研究向度,坚持思潮研究和思想史、哲学、宗教等其他社会科学研究相结合,对一种具体思潮的研究要清醒认识五个问题。

Lots of social thoughts are now emerging in China, with different studies on them. The author thinks that there exist some problems in the current study of China＇s social thoughts, for example, the application of the word ＂social thoughts＂ is too causal, the boundary of the study on social thoughts is unclear and there is not close combination of the study on China＇s contemporary social thoughts with the study on the world＇ social thoughts as well as that on religious thoughts. He thinks that the method to study social thoughts should not be abstract, but concrete, which means we should stick to the study method combining subject and object according to historical dialectics and combine the study on social thoughts with study on thought history, philosophy, religion as well as other social sciences and finally he proposes that the researchers should figure out five questions if they want to study a specific social thought and have conscious understanding on it.