| As the first person of the modern moral revolution, Liang Qi-chao reflected on the Chinese tradition in the context of Western Learning. He profoundly analyzed the modern tragic situation of Modern China, and realized that because of lacking of awareness of rights, that People became more and more salvable, and eventually made modern China carnivorous. Therefore, Liang called on to develop the importance of the rights, tried to wake up people’s awareness of rights, and enlightened national, in order to save peril country.Despite the right theory of Modern sense comes from the West, Liang demonstrated rights under the traditional culture. He pointed out that "if abandon Western culture, Chinese culture will become of no use, while if only focus on Western culture, it will lost the fundamental. Those two situations can not be used to control the world (Liang,1999:58)". This is the consistent attitude in Western culture of Liang. It was just under such an attitude that Liang absorbed the poultry distinction in traditional culture, from the view of the theory of human nature, and indicated that people are people is because rights. Meanwhile, he learned the freedom of thought that missing in Chinese traditional from Western learning, argued people’s pursuit of the nature of individual freedom. This makes his rights associated with the individual inner self, which reflected his focus on the intrinsic value of individual.However, as the subject of existence, human is not only the individual self, but also exists in the group. This leads the contact with self and the external. From the external, right shows in the relationship between the individual and the group, the rights and the obligations. In the unity of it, the realization of rights depends on the power and the competition. |
