“早期启蒙说”与中国现代化－－纪念侯外庐先生百年诞辰

Early Enlightenment Theory' and China's Modernization

在20世纪的中国史学界，侯外庐先生以其不肯曲学阿世的崇高人格和独树一帜的理论建树，凸显了以追求真理为最高目的的学术研究民具有的非凡价值。其“早期启蒙说”，通过社会史与思想史的统合研究和对思想发展的内在理路的精微辩析，突破西方学者对中国社会和思想文化的传统偏见，超越普遍主义与特殊主义的对立，论证了中国有其内发原生的现代性思想文化的历史性根芽，以此丰富了马克思主义的世界历史理论。接着侯外庐先生往下讲，文章对当前世界范围内的“启蒙反思”的思潮作了具体的分析评说，深入探讨了“早期启蒙说”对于突破体用两橛、中西对峙、传统与现代截然二分的思维方式，探索中国的现代化之路所具有的启迪意义。

In Chinese science of history in the 20th century, Mr. Hou Wanlu's high personality not to curry favor and his achievement of his own theory show great value in his academic research to seek the truth as his ideal. By study of the history of society and history of thought and deliberate analysis of the internal thinking in the development of thought, his 'early enlightenment theory' breaks through western scholars' traditional prejudice on Chinese society and ideological culture, surpasses the universalism-particularism conflict , proves the historical embryo that China has its own endogenous ideological culture of modernity , which enriches Marxist theory of world history. After that, he makes a specific analysis of 'enlightenment' trend in the present world, makes a further discussion of 'early enlightenment theory' on the thinking mode, explores the inspiration China's modernization covers.