Hugh Trevor-Roper and the history of ideas

A wave of recent publication connected to Hugh Trevor-Roper offers cause to take stock of his life and legacy. He is an awkward subject because his output was so protean, but a compelling one because of his significance for the resurgence of the history of ideas in Britain after 1945. The article argues that the formative period in Trevor-Roper's life was 1945–57, a period curiously neglected hitherto. It was at this time that he pioneered a history of ideas conceived above all as the study of European liberal and humanist tradition. Analysis of the relative importance of contemporary and early modern history in his oeuvre finds that, while the experience of Hitler and the Cold War was formative, it was not decisive.Trevor-Roper was at heart an early modernist who did not abjure specialization.However, he insisted that specialized study must be accompanied by “philosophical” reflection on the workings of a constant human nature present throughout history, a type of reflection best pursued by reading classical historians such as Gibbon and Burckhardt.Yet this imperative in turn fostered purely historical research into the history of historical writing – another branch of the history of ideas.     

Karl Marx's theory of history: A defense

A wave of recent publication connected to Hugh Trevor-Roper offers cause to take stock of his life and legacy. He is an awkward subject because his output was so protean, but a compelling one because of his significance for the resurgence of the history of ideas in Britain after 1945. The article argues that the formative period in Trevor-Roper's life was 1945–57, a period curiously neglected hit her to. It was at this time that the pioneered a history of ideas conceived above all as the study of European liberal and humanist tradition. Analysis of the relative importance of contemporary and early modern history in his oeuvre finds that, while the experience of Hitler and the Cold War was formative, it was not decisive. Trevor-Roper was at heart an early modernist who did not abjure specialization. However, he insisted that specialized study must be accompanied by “philosophical” reflection on the working sofa constant human nature present throughout history, a type of reflection best pursued by reading classical historians such as Gibbon and Burckhardt. Yet this imperative in turn fostered purely historical research into the history of historical writing–another branch of the history of ideas.     

南京博物院开展手语讲解的几点思考

博物馆开展手语讲解表达的不仅仅是文物历史知识,更传递着社会对残疾人群的关爱。     

梁实秋的新人文主义旅行观及其现代意义

梁实秋是一名坚定的新人文主义者。其旅行观以“逃避论”、“枯寂论”为核心,将人生、人性、美食与旅行相结合,构建了独树一帜的新人文主义旅行观,促进了现代文人旅游思想史的演进。     

实用主义：一种功利主义还是人本主义思潮

本文旨在对作为一种哲学立场的“实用主义”进行正名,对实用主义学说的精神内涵进行重读和清理。实用主义把哲学的首要价值定位为研究人的问题,改善人的生活,其着眼点是讨论生活和行动的意义,从根本上说．它是一种人本主义思潮。     

Rhetoric and communication in Joseph Conrad

Early modern natural philosophers such as Francis Bacon are frequently seen as providing a legitimating ideology for British imperial expansion. Although this has been challenged by one recent study, much of Bacon's work on English colonisation remains unexplored. This article argues that far from being an ideological apologist for English colonisation, Bacon had two sets of colonial anxieties. The first derived from a tradition of civic humanism which concerned the moral corruption, dispossession of indigenous people and the greed involved in the British colonization of Ireland and America. Bacon's second anxiety was not moral but epistemological, and stemmed from his natural philosophy. For Bacon, colonies were not simply new commonwealths, they were places which potentially produced the natural knowledge vital for the recreation of man's original, epistemic empire over the world. Consequently, Bacon was not only interested in the morality of colonising, but also whether the knowledge produced in colonies was reliable. An exploration of Bacon's views on colonisation also offers us a point of entry into the scholarly debate about the relationship between Bacon's natural philosophy and his political thought.     

论林肯反奴隶制思想的重要思想源头

美国第16任总统亚伯拉罕·林肯是一位坚强的反奴隶制战士,其反奴隶制思想的主要思想源头如下(一)杰斐逊的民主主义思想.(二)自然神论.(三)人道主义.(四)国家主义观念.由于具有这种思想基础,林肯始终遵奉杰斐逊民主的基本原则,以捍卫宪法和维护国家统一为己任,痛恨种族奴役,并能够顺应进步潮流,同南方奴隶制度进行不懈的斗争.     

The economic of agricultural land tenure

This article sheds new light on the interesting but little-studied figure of Thomas Scott of Canterbury (1566–1635). In presenting Scott's ideas I will modify the interpretation laid out by Peter Clark whose groundbreaking study, ‘Thomas Scott and the Growth of Urban Opposition to the Early Stuart Regime’, is still the only secondary source that pays detailed attention to Scott and his thought, especially his religious opinions. The necessity to revisit Clark's interpretation of Scott's place within the political and doctrinal debates of early Stuart England stems from the conviction that his political work and his ideological stances deserve more subtle attention. Most importantly, they were part of the emerging reaction against the policies of the first two Stuart Kings which can be labelled ‘country patriotism’. Finally, the elucidation of Scott's writings will provide a novel insight into an early configuration of English national identity.     

后现代主义城市空间模式的人文探析

城市空间结构一直是后现代主义渗透、活跃的领域。本文对后现代主义纷繁复杂的城市空间结构模式,进行了较为客观、全面的论述,剖析了其人文主义的精神内涵。文章最后评判了后现代主义城市空间模式的得失,明示了其与现代主义融合的未来趋向。