| Abstract |
Tan Si-tong was known as a ‘martyr’ and ‘thinker’, this image processes both generality and particularity in modern China’s converting era, and is the key point for scholars ever researched. This essay plans to leap from the mode of theory, get rid of the inevitable demonstration of a ‘martyr’ and the thoughtfulness of ‘仁學’, but to explore how Tan Si-tong’s character was built before the maturity of his thought through the texts he left behind, and to inquire through the four dimensions of ‘ancestor’, ‘family affection’, ‘life and death’, and ’peregrination’, into Tan Si-tong’s character which was based on the keynote of ‘tradition’, and dragged out the two poles of ‘life’ and ’death’, so that the various contradictious factors crashed and shocked each other, and then condensed into the unacceptable absolute solitude. His heading for the way of radical reform was an intention to burst the ‘toils’ interweaved, and torn by the self-contradictious character. |
