严复是中国自由主义之父和启蒙先驱。他以“自由为体,民主为用”的西方文明论和“开民智”的启蒙主义,突破了支配洋务时代三十年的“中体西用”范式,开启了中国近代思想文化史上的“转型时代”。严复的伦理观深受苏格兰启蒙运动以降英国古典自由主义的影响,其输入新伦理与调和旧道德、整合公民伦理与儒家传统的道德调整方案,以及道德演化、义利统一、教学二元、新旧调和的观点,显示了其自由与保守兼备的古典思想气质,以及晚清启蒙运动之温和的苏格兰路向。 Yan Fu is the father of Chinese liberalism and enlightenment. His theory of Western civilization and the enlightenment of “opening up people’s minds” with “freedom as the body and democracy as the basis for use” broke through the “three-in-one Western use” paradigm that dominated the Westernization era for 30 years and opened China The “Age of Transformation” in Modern Ideological and Cultural History. Yan Fu’s ethics has been deeply influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment to bring down British classical liberalism. His input of new ethics and reconciliation of old morals, integration of ethical and Confucian traditions, moral adjustment, moral evolvement, unity of righteousness and benefit, teaching of dualism, The reconciled point of view shows its classical and liberal ideology, both free and conservative, and the mild Scottish approach of the Enlightenment in the late Qing dynasty.