严复国民思想“劣根性”研究

The Study of Yan Fu's Thoughts on the Citizen Innate Badness

严复是近代对国民素质及其教育始终予以最深切关注的启蒙思想家。严复首次提出了国民"劣根性"问题。本文从表现形式、改造方法等方面对严复关于国民"劣根性"的批判与改造思想进行了初步探讨。文章认为,严复站在中西对比的高度对国民"劣根性"表现的分析,主张通过发展教育改造整个国民性,塑造优秀的种族来挽救中国,对今天仍具有现实意义。

Yan Fu is an enlightenment thinker in modern China who paid close attention to national performance and education.Yan Fu put forward the problem of the citizen's innate badness for the very first time.This article tries to study the thoughts that Yan Fu animadverted and transformed the citizen's innate badness,and considers that Yan Fu analysised the performance of the citizen's innate badness from the contrast of China and the West.He advocated transforming the whole nationality by education and saving the country by creating a superior race.It implied a lot of valuable revelation,which is still of immediate significance today.