Chronology Entry
Year
1919
Text
Chen, Duxiu. Gong li he zai [ID D18304].
Shao Lixin : Chen Duxiu's failure to recognize his own identity and his tendency to use Nietzsche or other Western thinkers as symbols to express his own Chinese ideas came partly from a social Darwinist prejudice. A nation that was backward economically and militarily must have inferior ideas and moral traditions, and vice versa. Out of the same prejudice he viewed the First World War as testing ground for what he thought as the two Western moral principles. And he believed that the post-war world would be dominated by the moral principle of the winning side. Since he believed that France and the United States stood for democracy, justice and peace, he looked forward the the Allied victory with great expectation.
Shao Lixin : Chen Duxiu's failure to recognize his own identity and his tendency to use Nietzsche or other Western thinkers as symbols to express his own Chinese ideas came partly from a social Darwinist prejudice. A nation that was backward economically and militarily must have inferior ideas and moral traditions, and vice versa. Out of the same prejudice he viewed the First World War as testing ground for what he thought as the two Western moral principles. And he believed that the post-war world would be dominated by the moral principle of the winning side. Since he believed that France and the United States stood for democracy, justice and peace, he looked forward the the Allied victory with great expectation.
Mentioned People (2)
Chen, Duxiu
(Huaining, Anhui 1879-1942 Sichuan) : Politiker, Gründer der Kommunistischen Partei, Marxist, Professor für Literatur, Dekan School of Arts and Sciences Beijing Universität
Nietzsche, Friedrich
(Röcken bei Lützen 1844-1900 Weimar) : Philosoph, Klassischer Philologe
Subjects
Philosophy : Europe : Germany
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1999 | Shao, Lixin. Nietzsche in China. (New York, N.Y. : Lang, 1999). (Literature and the sciences of Man ; vol. 11). S. 32. | Publication / Shao1 |
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