Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) ›› 2006, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (1): 41-45.

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The "People-centered" Idea and Traditional Western Humanism

Yi-shi ZHENG   

  1. Department of Philosophy, East China normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
  • Received:2005-03-02 Online:2006-01-30 Published:2006-01-30

Abstract:

As a human civilized fruit, humanism has a long historical source, and its value pursuit is characterized by a certain degree of universality.In a sense the "people-centered"idea of scientific perspectives on development is a spiral return to traditional humanism; it is an inheritance, as well as a sublation, of the traditional Western humanist thought.Such an idea, mixing the epochal spirit and value pursuit into the humanist thought, indicates a correction against the deviation of value orientation in the course of our country's social development, and also a Chinese Communist innovation in theory and a practical direction in future.

Key words: humanism, the "people-centered"idea, the scientific concept of development

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