Yufei Xu

Yufei Xu

27 November, 2023

Historical theory contradiction, Historical rationality, New forms of human civilization, Historical materialism.

Under the new situation, ideological and political courses in colleges and universities are supposed to join value with knowledge, construction with criticism. It is necessary to resolve the innate contradiction in "historical theory" by clarifying the depth and thickness of the grand historical rationality. This article reviews the historical logic in the "Outline of Modern Chinese History" and finds that there are four levels of historical rationalities and their dynamics: Lance's view of history provides a solid historical material and factual basis for this course, avoiding using theory to harm history; The deep historical rationality of the Western tradition is mainly based on Thucydides' "restatement of major reasons" and Toynbee's "impact response" model, embedding modern Chinese features and events into a larger framework of civilization, and solving the internal tension of historical theory by building bridges and roads; The institutional framework of civilization evolution has brought the concept of history into a deeper argument of social change, and the traditional Chinese "Sima Qian's view of history" and its moral universe have placed the debate between the "revolutionary" paradigm and the "modernization" paradigm in a new physical causal closure. The four rationalities of history are flourished in a profound materialist view of history, where "people first" provides a creative transformation for the "relationship between heaven and man" in the traditional civilization, reaching a new form of human civilization based in a new dual ontology of society and nature.

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