重评学衡派对五四新文化运动的批评

学衡派之所以长期以来被认为是保守主义的文化派别,主要是因为其重要思想特征就是批评五四新文化运动,从而被认为是反对新文化。其实,学衡派与新文化派的分歧,不在于要不要新文化,而在于如何建设新文化;不在于革新还是守旧,而在于如何革新;不在于拒绝还是引进西方文化,而在于应在什么原则下进行。从学理的层面分析,二者的理论各有得失。

Rethinking the criticism of Xueheng School on May 4th New Culture Movement

Xueheng has long been regarded as a conservative culture school chiefly because it criticized May 4~(th) New Culture Movement. People hence believed this school was against the new culture. Actually from an academic point of view, the Xueheng School differed from the New Culture School not in whether or not to accept the new culture but in how to develop the new culture; not in whether to be revolutionary or to be conservative, but in how to reform; not in whether to refuse or to introduce western culture, but under what principle to introduce it.