후스 사상의 실천 전략 및 그 한계 - ‘전반서화’와 ‘관용’론을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper discusses the practical strategy and its limitations of Hu Shih's thought in two aspects. First, Hu spread experimentalism, campaigned for the emancipation of thinking, democracy and science, and total westernization, casting a profound spell over the whole nation. But he changed “totalistic westernization” to the term “full globalization” in the debate between “original culture” and “totalistic westernization” in the 1930s. As a result of this study, I argue that Hu’s totalistic westernization could not be fully applied in Chinese society despite having a theoretical system because of deep-rooted cultural inertia. Second, Hu stressed the importance of tolerance and claimed that “tolerance is the basis of freedom.”, and he urged the government to protect the right to freedom of expression. As a result of this study, I argue that it is resistance to intolerance from Hu’s own liberal beliefs. Although Hu reached a level of maturity in thinking, but it turned into a political conformity to the Kuomintang in his later years. This paper concludes that Hu could not give up hope for freedom to the end, it was confirmed that the spirit of tolerance is a self-defense in order to protect himself from the government.