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Our Attitude toward Modern Western Civilization
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Our Attitude toward Modern Western Civilization challenges simplified cultural oppositions. Hu Shi’s argument asks how inquiry and reform can address actual conditions.
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Guided course · Module 12 · Lesson 71
Can a tradition be reconstructed rather than preserved unchanged?
Hu Shi and Liang Shuming disagree about how a tradition should be renewed and what science, democracy and inherited moral resources contribute. The lesson also separates a philosophical proposal from state policy.