全球思想史是国际学术界刚刚兴起的研究领域，相关研究内容和研究范式还处于探索之中。从全球视野来看，作为建构现代全球秩序的主体，欧洲起到了重要的作用。因此，在全球思想史研究的路径选择上，我们还是需要重回欧洲，改变目前大都从非欧洲地区入手来展开的学术路径。从研究内容来说，全球思想史研究理应探讨现代全球秩序的思想起源，考察形塑现代全球秩序的思想内容。当然重回欧洲，并非是将欧洲看作中心，而是从思想的全球流动与联结这一关系之中来展开重思性考察。同时，这一研究不再仅是一种历史性的思考，而且也是面向未来，挖掘今后建构全球秩序的思想资源。

As a research field that has begun to gain attention only recently in the international academic circle, global intellectual history is still in search of its subjects and possible paradigms. From a global perspective, Europe has played a key role in the formation of the modern world order, which renders it necessary to return to Europe in global intellectual history studies, as an alternative to the present approach that mostly proceeds from non-European regions. Global intellectual history should explore the intellectual origins of the modern world order and examine the intellectual content that has shaped the modern world order. The return to Europe, to be sure however, is not to treat Europe as the world's center but to rethink about ideas and thoughts in the process of their global circulations and interactions. In addition, the research should not be confined to a historical mode of thinking only, but also becomes future oriented, excavating intellectual resources for the construction of a future world order.