On The Demonstration Spirit Of Hu Shi Pragmatism

Hu Shi is the influential philosopher and thinker in the history of modern philosophy, and his extraordinary life event, extremely rich and complex speech writing, not only reflects half of the 20th century tortuous course of development of society, but also greatly influence Chinese social, political and cultural fields.Pragmatism (pragmatism) is a focus on practical and effective, practice and experience uphold the value of philosophy, arguing that practical effect as long as the idea is true-unless it conflicts with the experience. Dewey's pragmatic philosophy is to advocate positive, practical, and utility for the feature, it reflects a light useless, yet practical, think highly of progress in the modern American spirit and values. As the value and purpose of theory, empirical spirit of pragmatism both in form and substance since the Ming and Qing China, "Real Learning" There are many fit between intentions, and become widely popular through the hands of Hu Shi in China.Hu Shi has repeatedly stated he was Dewey's followers in all his life and his belief is that Dewey's pragmatism, how much proportion in Hu Shi's thoughts dose Dewey's pragmatism take? How dose he communicate between the thoughts of Chinese and Western "pragmatism" Hu Shi left for us this is a mystery to be solved. It is on these issues, this article attempts to analyze the empirical Hu Shi pragmatic spirit and content of expression, and to explore ways in fact permit the study in the history of Chinese philosophy, and thus analysis and discussion on the significance of Hu Shi's pragmatic spirit and limitations of empirical.This article first thought Hu Shi was sort of pragmatism, pragmatic thinking on the development process of Hu Shi, the spread in China, and Hu Shi on the pragmatic interpretation of the reference and analyzed; second, which is the focus of this article analyzes the content reflects of spirit practical of Hu Shi empirical; third part discusses the empirical methods of Hu Shi in the Chinese history of philosophy in the implementation; Finally analysis the Significance and limitations of spirit positive of Hu Shi's pragmatism, and expressed some of my experience and opinions.