The Study Of Logical Method In Modern Chinese Culture Reform

Modern China is a time for seeking surviving and change. Along with social political and economical changes, culture reform becomes the necessary choice of modern China. In order to implement culture reform, the way of thinking must be changed, while the changes of way of thinking need scientific spirit and method. Consequently, logical method comes into the sights of ideologists in a particular scientific method and thinking form. Chinese modern culture reform is the result of the learning of Western culture, the collision of Western and Chinese culture and the men of insight's exploration. The men of insight tried to use the critics and re-construction of culture to realize the revival of nation and social reform. Starting with the inherent elements of value orientation and cultural structure, this paper reveals the significant relationship between modern Chinese cultural reform and logical method. Cutting in from the logics of Mohist school and its modern revival, the paper also shows the obstruction of western logics introduction in the end of Ming Dynasty. The dissemination of induction logical method translated by Yan Fu, the spread of scientific spirits during the May 4th Movement and Jin Yuelin and other thinkers using logical analysis re-constructed philosophical system highlight the path of taking logical method as transforming thinking and the integration of Chinese-foreign culture. All of those have a close relationship with modern Chinese culture reform. The paper makes a contemporary scan to the influence of logical method on modern cultural reform. While analyzing its meaning, the paper also points out the limitations. In any case, modern cultural reform reflects the needs of social change in nature, the logical method plays an very important role in changing traditional thinking way, inspiring scientific spirits and promoting modern cultural transformation from spontaneity to self-consciousness. So they burden the important tasks of absorbing western culture, melting with world cultural waves and advancing social transformation's responsibility in modern China.