The Predicament and Outlet of Cultural Renaissance：From "Being Saint Inside and Seeking Innovation Outside"to "Public Confucianism"
DAI Rong-li
Abstract：In order to break the cultural predicament of the Chinese nation since the early period of its modern era ,the Chinese elites have put forward a lot of solutions ,the dominant of which is the proposition of "being saint inside and seeking innovation outside".It is the mainstream paradigm of modern classical studies .Recently ,Deng Xize made severe and sharp criticism of the thought and proposed a transcending plan-public Confucianism .With the basic methodology of "problem+method+validity",public Confucian-ism demonstrates the value of historical culture from the perspective of public communication .As a consist-ent platform of thought generation and public communication of all times ,the Confucianism-led historical culture may continue to promote public communication and contribute feasible plans of cultural renais-sance ,hence it is the validity of the plan .
Keywords：cultural renaissance"being saint inside and seeking innovation outside"public Confucian-ismvalidity
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：10( 14-23 )