Lecture via zoom on Friday, June 17. Huang Ko-wu will speak about "Chinese Intellectuals’ Rethinking of Science, Religion, and Superstition in the 20th Century: From Yan Fu, Liang Qichao to New Confucians"
You are warmly invited to participate in the next lecture of our 2021/2022 lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.
Huang Ko-wu 黃克武 (Academician, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica) will speak about Chinese Intellectuals’ Rethinking of Science, Religion, and Superstition in the 20th Century: From Yan Fu, Liang Qichao to New Confucians 二十世紀初期中國知識分子對科學、宗教與迷信的再思考：以嚴復與梁啟超為例
Huang Ko-wu 黃克武 (Academician, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica) will speak about Chinese Intellectuals’ Rethinking of Science, Religion, and Superstition in the 20th Century: From Yan Fu, Liang Qichao to New Confucians 二十世紀初期中國知識分子對科學、宗教與迷信的再思考：以嚴復與梁啟超為例
Time: June 17, 2022, 10:00 AM CEST
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
On Zoom: For registration (required), please use this Zoom link.
Abstract
清末民初的中國常常被認為是一個「世俗化」的過程，它結束了「經學時代」，開啟了經驗主義的科學時代。本講座以嚴復與梁啟超對科學、宗教與迷信等觀念的思索，來反省近代中國世俗化的問題。嚴復與梁啟超是近代中國引介民主與科學的先驅。嚴復所翻譯的《天演論》帶來了一個新的宇宙觀，而梁啟超受到嚴復影響，也對新學的引介發揮重要的作用。五四時期新舊人物均受到嚴、梁的影響，然而嚴、梁卻走出一條與五四新文化運動的支持者，如胡適與陳獨秀等人不同的思路。他們不主張科學與宗教（即迷信）的矛盾，反而強調，科學有其限度、宗教有其價值，而科學與宗教的發展將導致迷信的衰微。這一套想法一方面源自於赫胥黎的「不可知論」，另一方面則由於他們以易經與佛教來詮釋新的宇宙觀，並肯定「孝」的宗教意義。這一種以傳統思想資源來貫通中西的想法為港台新儒家，如熊十力、唐君毅和牟宗三等所繼承。他們極力抵制五四科學主義和反傳統主義，更深入地思考中國傳統和西方現代應該如何融合的嚴肅問題。
This lecture series is jointly organized by
CeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
Asia-Africa-Institute, Department for Chinese Language and Culture, Hamburg University
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
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