摘要
清末古文家虽强调“求真”而非“致用”，但事实上发展了道咸以来的经世致用学风。国粹派学者是其典型代表。他们批评晚清今文经学，自身却也重新诠释经学传统，并且“通经致用”，发展儒家的夷夏之辨及民本思想。他们又阐述非儒学派，把“经世之学”扩展到诸子学、史学以及佛学，从而学术格局由经学独盛变为多元并存。这为进一步汲取近代观念和西学方法创造了条件。作为晚清较为庞大的传统学术群体，古文家的经世学风加速了传统学术的衍变和转型。
Although Old Text scholars in the late Qing Dynasty emphasized “seeking truth” but not “putting into practice”, in fact they developed the practical statecr aft scholarship of the Daoguang and Xianfeng periods. The scholars of the Nation al Essence school were typical representatives of such Old Text scholars. They c riticized late Qing New Text studies, but they also re interpreted the traditio n of the study of the Confucian Classics, and developed the Confucian distinctio n between barbarians and Chinese, and the theory of the people as the foundation of the nation. They also explained non Confucian schools and extended “the st udy of statecraft” to cover the pre Qin and Han philosophers, historiography a nd Buddhism. Thus the structure of scholarship shifted from the solitary floweri ng of studies of the Classics to the pluralistic co existence of many schools. This further provided the conditions for drawing on modern ideas and Western met hods. As a comparatively large traditional academic group in the late Qing perio d, these Old Text scholars' statecraft studies hastened the evolution and transf ormation of traditional learning.
出处
《近代史研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2001年第6期21-54,共34页
Modern Chinese History Studies
