批判精神对人的全面发展的效用

在实现社会主义现代化的过程中努力推进入的现代化是社会主义初级阶段对人的全面发展的必然要求。人的现代化并不是自发的,而需要我们自觉地“推进”。批判精神对人的全面发展的效用就在于使人从发展中的自发状态转变为自觉状态,使人意识到自己的潜能和力量,使人们有勇气和决心运用自己的理性进行自主的独立的判断,从而摆脱人自己加诸自己的不成熟状态,激发人的创新能力,并在此基础上不断提高自己的精神境界,逐步走向全面发展。

Critical Spirit and Its Usefulness to the Overall Development of Man

In the course of constructing socialist modernization, carrying forward the modernization of man is an inexorable requirement for the development of man in the early stage of socialism. Man's modernization is neither automatic nor spontaneous, so it calls for our "pushing on". The usefulness of critical spirit to the overall development of man lies in that it helps to convert man from being spontaneous to being conscientious in his own development, it makes man conscious of his own mistakes, shortcomings as well as his own potentials and abilities; it enables man to be courageous enough to make decisions and judgments on his own. Therefore it helps man to outgrow his own immaturity and gives rise to his creativity. On the basis of these, his spiritual world will become broader and broader and man's overall development will be gradually attained to.