严复是近代中国向西方寻找真理的先进人物之一,著名的资产阶级启蒙思想家。中国在甲午战争中的失败加速了他“西学”救国核心思想的形成。他通过著书、翻译来传播西方资产阶级“天赋人权”思想,反对清王朝的封建专制统治;批判洋务派“中学为体,西学为用”的主张,力倡西学“愈愚”。严复的西学思想具有极其重要的历史地位,亦有其局限性。 Yan Fu is one of the advanced figures who sought the truth from the West in modern China. The famous bourgeois enlightenment thinkers. The failure of China in the Sino-Japanese War accelerated the formation of the core idea of ​​saving the nation by his Western learning. He spreads the ideas of Western bourgeoisie and “natural human rights” through books and translators and opposes the feudal autocratic rule of the Qing dynasty. He criticizes the Westernization School for his advocacy of “Western learning as the basis and Western learning as the basis” stupid". Yan Fu’s Western thought has an extremely important historical status and its limitations.