Lu Xun And Pragmatism

Pragmatism came into China under the tide of the "west" to "east", and dominating in the 1920s, it also became the largest foreign thought even beyond the Marxism. During the May 4th Movement, pragmatism as a strong anti-feudal spirit comply with the strong Enlightenment's sprit of science and democracy; The meet of Lu Xun and Pragmatism is on this basis to reach a turning point.Hu Shi as China's pragmatist, accepted experimentalism mostly as a methodology and described it as "a bold assumption, carefully double-check". It mainly displayed in three aspects: questionable methods; experimental method; historical approach; Dewey as a practical master of doctrine, the most compelling is his instrumental Truth. Furthermore, he put it up to the instrumental epistemology, The spirit of Lu Xun in the practical dimensions of distinct rational instrumentalist and Dewey will pass between there and the socio-political outlook, scientific outlook, education and ethical values of every step with the Dewey; The "radical empiricism" of James built on the basis of pragmatism, Lu Xun speak civil religion, anti-intellectual tendencies, pluralism ideology and so on, and James sing the trend of the formation.Lu Xun's thought is full of complex contradictions and paradoxes, and its pragmatic thinking is no exception: The Enlightenment and anti-enlightenment, the Metaphysics and anti-metaphysics, the Pragmatism and Idealism.Lu Xun follow the correspondence theory of truth, the "mirror metaphor" mode to "practical" type of paradigm shift, His thought is guiding the formation of values in contemporary, and the joint efforts of Lu Xun's ideas for pragmatism and transcendence, is becoming Lu Xun's new mission today.