The Practical Significance of Yan Fu's Thought on the Cultivation of New People's Virtue in the Era

Abstract

Yan Fu is one of the advanced figures in modern China's exploration of saving the nation and striving for survival, and his translated works have spread many advanced Western ideas. Among them, his "New People's Moral Thought" combined the domestic and international background at that time, criticized the feudal traditional moral culture, demanded the establishment of new people's morality based on freedom and equality, and then established public morality and popularized new people's morality. This series of ideas opened up the development direction of modern Chinese national quality. In the pursuit of national rejuvenation in the new era, cultivating new talents as a key task has been put on the agenda of socialist spiritual civilization construction. There is a strong inherent correlation between the cultivation of new era talents and Yan Fu's "New People's Moral Thought". Exploring Yan Fu's "New People's Moral Thought" still has important practical significance for the logical generation and path inspiration of the cultivation of new era talents.