现代新儒家是五四以后颇有影响的思想派别。在当代港台学术界,一般认为,梁漱溟、熊十力、张君劢、钱穆、牟宗三、唐君毅、徐复观等是现代新儒家的主要代表人物。其中梁漱溟、熊十力等称为第一代新儒家,牟宗三、唐君毅,徐复观等人则称为第二代新儒家。本文试图把洋务派与港台新儒家作一些比较,从而显示他们之间的思想关系,并在此基础上对新儒家略作评价。一“中体西用”就是“中学为体,西学为用”,毋庸赘言。但“返本开新”是什么意思呢?牟宗三的追随者王邦雄曾有一个简明的界说:“返本者,返传统儒学之本,对自家文化能自作主宰;开新者,开科学民主之新,使西学中国化而为中国所用。”可见,新儒家通 Modern Neo-Confucianism is an influential school of thought after the May Fourth Movement. In contemporary academic circles in Hong Kong and Taiwan, it is generally accepted that Liang Shuming, Xiong Shili, Zhang Junmai, Qian Mu, Mou Zongsan, Tang Junyi and Xu Fuguan are the main representatives of modern Neo-Confucianism. Among them, Liang Shuming and Xiong Shili are called the first generation of Neo-Confucian. Mou Zongsan, Tang Junyi and Xu Fuguan are called the second generation of Neo-Confucianism. This article attempts to make some comparison between the Westernization School and the Neo-Confucianism in Hong Kong and Taiwan so as to reveal the ideological relationship between them and to comment on the Neo-Confucianism slightly. A “Chinese Western use” is “middle school as a body, Western learning is used,” Needless to say. However, Wang Zongxiong, a follower of Mou Zongsan, once gave a succinct definition: “Returning those who return to the traditional Confucianism can control their own culture by themselves; they can open up a new one and open a scientific democracy New, make the Westernization of China used for China. ”Visible, the new Confucianism