上世纪80年代以来,余英时先生对知识分子问题予以较多关注,为其学术思想注入了一种实践活力。他认为现代意义上的知识分子兴起于春秋战国之际,并利用“道”来改造世界。为了保证“道”的庄严和纯正,知识分子特别重视个人的精神修养。由于时代的变迁,现代知识分子面临政治与文化上的双重边缘化。 Since the 1980s, Mr. Yu Yingshi has paid more attention to intellectual issues and injected a kind of practical vitality into his academic thoughts. He believes that intellectuals in the modern sense of the rise in the Spring and Autumn Period and the occasion, and the use of “Road ” to transform the world. In order to ensure the solemn and pure “Taoism,” intellectuals attach great importance to personal spiritual cultivation. Due to the changes of the times, the modern intellectuals are faced with the dual political and cultural marginalization.