Analysis of Hsu Fu-kuan ‘s Political Cultural Thoughts——Comparing With Mou Zongsan and Tang Junyi

Abstract

Hsu Fu-kuan is an outstanding scholar and an upright ideologist in modern China. His political and cultural thoughts can be summarized as breaking the old, set up the new, and get rid of the weed and keep the fl ower of the leek. On the one hand,he maintains traditional culture from the standpoint of traditionalists, and on the other hand, he is diff erent from ordinary tradition-alists who just maintain traditional culture. He doesn’t just agree and maintain everything in the tradition with no change, but to implement the thought of liberalism through criticism and creation of traditional culture. This paper takes comparison and demon-stration between Hsu Fu-kuan and Mou Zongsan as well as Tang Junyi.Although there are diff erences between the three, they jointly advocate traditional culture, trying to integrate the essence of Confucianism with Western culture for breaking the political diffi culties of China for nearly a century, and clearing the cay for democracy and science.