Research On Thoughts Of Enlightenment Ethic Of Yan-Fu

Enlighten ethnic is the guide in the social structural transitional period. It is essential for the transition from the traditional society to the modern society, meanwhile it is the destination for social development. The calling for the modernization of our society would be an empty promise without modern ethnic minds. This article aims to uncover the hiding enlighten ethnic ideas in Yan Fu's articles and translated works and confirm Yan Fu's achievements and his status as the thinker of enlightens of bourgeoisie in Chinese modern history.Under the background of times of Chinese modern"saving nation and maintaining its existence", Yan Fu took advantage of his knowledge about Chinese and the western culture to form his enlighten ethnic ideas,critizing and introspecting Chinese feudal monarchical power and the public's benighted ideas, studying and spreading the excellent ideas of the western enlighten ethnic thinkers.Basically, Yan Fu's ideas included the specific plan of"encouraging the public, enlightening them and creating the new public ethnics orders, the promotion the new ethnic ideas about freedom as the base and democracy would be used widely, the new accepting public ideas about depriving the false theory and respecting the truth, the object of scientific and technical value and utility of managing wisely.The theory of Yan Fu has not only the profound historical meaning but also has tremendous practical values.Yan Fu , as the enlighten thinker in Chinese modern history and the important pioneer to saving the nation through science and technology, breaks traditional rigid view of world and develop enterprising sprit and spreading the thoughts of changing the original law to maintain the new system, however, his successful and failure experience in transforming Chinese traditional ethnic and moral theory, would be regarded as deep and profound lessons and important references for us to solve the problems in modern society.