简论同光时期的儒学与民本思想

同光时期 ,儒学在研究对象、研究方法、功能作用和价值取向上的变革 ,使儒学实现了从“尊德性”到“道问学”再到“经世致用”的历史性转变。伴随着儒学这一重大转变而来的是 ,民本思想在理论上失去了儒家学术的智力支持 ,在实践上丧失了儒学提供的精神动力 ,同光时期儒学的衰变因而也改变了民本思想的历史命运。

A Brief Discussion on Confucianism and the Thought of People Counting Most during the Reigns of Tongzhi and Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty

During the reigns of Tongzhi and Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, Confucianism underwent changes in its objects of study, research methods and values, thereby shifting its focus from "Meditation on human nature" to "Confucian Scholastics" and finally to "Utilitarianism". With these significant shifts, the thought of People Counting Most lost its ideological support from Confucianism, thus lacking motivation in its application to practice. The downward trend in the development of Confucianism during the above periods according changed the historical fate of the thought of People Counting Most lost.