抗战时期钱穆的文化复兴思想及评价

抗战时期钱穆的文化复兴思想主要体现在三个方面,一是对历史虚无主义的批判,反对清末以来一些“革新派”的史学家和思想家以西方文化为评价标准,不加分析地把中西历史文化传统与性格的不同,看成是先进(西方)与落后(中国)的区别,把自秦以来二千年的中国历史都说成是“中古时代”或“封建时代”的历史,否认中国历史文化的发展和进步,甚至自我菲薄,把中国历史文化说得一无是处,而主张对中国历史文化要有“温情与敬意”;二是对中国文化特殊性的阐释,在考察中国文化赖以产生的独特环境的基础上,就中国文化与欧洲文化在政治、经济、人生观念和宗教等方面的不同进行了比较,并提出了自己独特的中国文化演进过程的四期说;三是对文化复兴之道路的探索,主张以“儒家思想为中心”来接纳或吸取西方的科学。

Qianmu's Thoughts on Chinese Renaissance during Chinese Resistance Against Japanese War

Qianmu's thoughts on Chinese Renaissance during Chinese resistance against Japanese war mainly exist in three aspects.The first aspect is his critique on the historical nihilism existed in some historians and thinkers who judged the Chinese culture by the standard of western culture,regarded the differences between Sino-western culture as advanced between backward,and saw all the Chinese history from Qin Dynasty as "mediaeval eve" or"feudalism eve",and thus denied any development in the Chinese history,gave a downright negative appraisal to Chinese culture.Qian Mu propose a "tender and venerate attitude"as understanding Chinese culture.The second aspect is his elaboration of the particularities lie in Chinese culture.While studying the particular environment relaying on which Chinese culture developed from,comparing Chinese culture with European culture from politic,economy,life attitude and religions,Qian Mu put forward his original theory which dividing the Chinese cultural evultion into four periods.The third aspect is his seeking the way of Chinese Renaissance.Qian Mu contend assimilating western science"on the basis of Confucian rules".