On The Problem Of Modernity

About the problem of modernity, look be like a cliché, but if ask, what is modernity in opinions vary. Generally speaking, the western Renaissance and the enlightenment of the era of the modern rational spirit is the essential connotation of modernity, it lift up high the flag of scientism and humanism, criticism of the religious ignorance of science, against religious theocratic oppression to human nature and leading the western world from the classical era, towards the modern society. Modernity on the one hand, shaping the modern western inner spiritual world, on the other hand shaped the modern world external political, economic and cultural system, so far as to say that the modern western civilization is modernity.In Chinese traditional culture, the modernity could not consciously give out, and in the end of the Qing Dynasty modernity came to China with gunboats, it from being forced to accept to actively explore, in China has experienced twists and turns and difficult process. New culture movement in the advanced intellectuals held high the banner of science and democracy, as people began to actively explore the development of modernity, eventually terminated because of war but later, until after the founding of new China, and has experienced ten years, reform and opening up and modernization construction to the development of China’s modernity to new historical climax. Today after more than 30 years, China is experiencing the most extensive and profound social changes in the history of our country, is also carrying on the history of mankind’s most ambitious and unique innovation practice, it is a need to thought also gave rise to thoughts of era, a new round of modernity construction climax will surge again. Of course, during this period, the modernity construction of our country is faced with from the deep waters, networked, reform postmodernism and so on various aspects of the difficulties and challenges.More sense in the west, modernity is a rationality as the core of freedom, equality, fraternity of modern philosophy, it on the sociological dimension shaped the western world outlook, values, formed the entire framework of social life, in the philosophical dimension to the absolute truthfulness makes "meta narrative" emphasizes the uniqueness of the mode of western civilization. But, in China, the original modernity is more similar to a kind of tool which in the real sense of saving the nation from subjugation fighting. Until after the reform and opening up, began in the form of ideas into modernity into the guiding ideology of socialist modernization construction in China. Modernity, so to speak, in today’s China, that is a kind of establishment of the social ideal and dream, it is not only retained the western modernity, the basic meaning of the original and rich with Chinese characteristics, are derived from the penetration in the governing idea of the party’s guiding ideology and the government.In our usual understanding, modernization is the process of transition from traditional society to modern society with the progress of industrialization; modernity is made on the basis of social modernization abstract nature and spirit of an era. Based on the theory and practice, between knowledge and the relations, we should realize that unique characteristics of Chinese modernity is the current our country socialist modernization drive of beacon and navigator, whether the sails is closely related to the modernization; At the same time to realize that today’s modernization will become the cornerstone of the development of Chinese modernity, the richness of China’s modernity theory and the recognition of solidarity with them.