冯桂芬“采西学”思想探析

Analysis of Feng Guifen’s Thought of Learning from the West

冯桂芬是中国近代历史上向西方学习的代表人物之一。面对清朝末年社会动荡的时局,冯桂芬以中国文化为根基,用开放、务实的态度对待外来文化,将“变法”与“自强”联系起来,提出了“以中国伦常名教为原本,辅以诸国富强之术”的改革主张,其中“采西学”思想独具特色。尽管在封建主义的束缚下,其“采西学”思想有一定的局限,但我们必须承认在近代西学东渐的历史上,冯桂芬是从器物学习到制度学习的先驱人物,起到了承上启下的作用。

Feng Guifen was one of the representative figures in the modern history of China who learned from the West.Facing the social unrest in the last years of Qing Dynasty,he took Chinese culture as the foundation,treated foreign cultures with an open and pragmatic attitude,and first linked"reform"with"self-improvement."He put forward the idea of reform,which was based on Chinese traditional culture and supplemented by advanced technology of foreign countries.Among them,the thought of learning from the west was unique.Under the constraint of feudalism,Feng Guifen's thought of learning from the west had certain limitations,but we must admit that in the modern history of introduction of western learning to the east,Feng Guifen was the pioneer from object learning to system learning,and he acted as a connecting link between the preceding and the following.