Sorting Out The Traditional Civilization: Between Tradition And Modernity

Sorting out the traditional civilization" took place in the 20th century when the tradition collided with the modernity. It tried to sort out the tradition, stir the history and reorganize the culture with the modem eyesight and review to realize the goal of rebuilding the civilization. However, between the two enormous forces: the tradition and the modernity, "Sorting out the traditional civilization" slump into the swamp and could not at all find the balance. "Sorting out the traditional civilization" came into being a modern heritage of thought. This paper concentrates on investigating, analyzing and introspecting .the swamp faced by the "Sorting out the traditional civilization" in a background of many eyesight including tradition and modernity, thought and academia.This paper is composed of three parts:The first part: Modernity Standpoint: the pursuit of "Sorting out the traditional civilization". From many aspects such as its theory, scientific spirit and folksy trend, analyze its pursuit of modern value.The second part: Double Predicament: the swamp of "Sorting out the traditional civilization". Inquire into the reasons why "Sorting out the traditional civilization" though full of pursuits of modernity could not reach its goal smoothly on the realistic aspect and faced with many challenges coming from tradition, modernity, itself and environment.The third part: Unfulfilled duty: the significance of "Sorting out the traditional civilization". Though the "Sorting out the traditional civilization" never realized its ideal, it left behind abundant thought value and meaning. Promoted the change of traditional culture from knowledge resources to academic resources, established the reasoning relationship between tradition and modernity, deepened the literature liberation and speed up the polarization of the roles of the intellectual. At the same tine, it also appears some obvious shortcomings, which providing a important historic reference for the thought of the successors.