Dzieło · Filozofia wschodnioazjatycka
O sile (Yuan qiang)
Napisane w Tiencinie po klęsce z Japonią: siła Zachodu leży nie w jego działach, lecz w fizycznych, intelektualnych i moralnych energiach jego ludu, które Chiny muszą kształcić.
Wprowadzenie
“On Strength” is one of four essays that Yan Fu published in the Tianjin newspaper Zhibao in 1895, in the months after China’s defeat by Japan. It opens with Darwin and with Spencer’s science of society and asks why Western nations had become so powerful. Yan Fu’s answer is that power rests on three qualities of a people – physical strength, knowledge and moral virtue – and that Western institutions, including liberty, serve to develop them. China’s weakness, he argued, lay not in a lack of weapons but in a political and educational order that kept these qualities undeveloped. The essay, revised in later years, set out the programme that guided his translations.
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- O powstawaniu gatunków1859 · Karol Darwin
- The Principles of Sociology (Zasady socjologii)1876 · Herbert Spencer
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