Yin Haiguang

Yin Haiguang (Chinese殷海光, born December 5, 1919 in Huanggang, † September 16, 1969 ), actually Yin Fusheng (Chinese殷福生), was a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy of the National Taiwan University (Chinese国立 台湾 大学, Pinyin Guoli Táiwān Daxue ) and belonged to the so-called liberal opposition in the 1950s and 60s to Taiwan, which had been grouped around the journal Free China.

Born in Huanggang, Hubei Province, in 1932 he left early to middle school and started an apprenticeship in Hankou in a grocery store. But after eight months, he returned to school, graduated in 1936 Gaozhong ( senior middle school) off and went to Beijing to continue his education. In 1937, Yin Haiguang planned at Tsinghua University for college, but he returned to the Lugouqiao Incident of 7 July 1937 in the province of Hubei. In the following year, Yin went to Kunming, where the University Xinan Lianda had been founded shortly before, and passed the entrance examination at the Faculty of Philosophy. Although Yin Haiguang studied in Kunming and not in Beijing, he is still referred to as a student of Jin Yuelin. Besides Jin Xiong Shili Yin Haiguang Yuelin also said to have influenced. The political setting Yin's during his stay in Kunming is considered nationalistic, anti- Japanese and anti-communist. After graduation in 1942 left Yin Haiguang Kunming and joined the army in 1944 voluntarily to. He received his military training in India.

After the Japanese surrender, he returned to China, was at the University of Nanjing lecturer in logic while also working for the newspaper Zhongyang ribao. As 1949 Zhongyang ribao moved its editorial staff after Taibei, also Yin Haiguang came to Taiwan.

After his arrival in Taibei Yin became a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy of the National Taiwan University. In addition to his teaching, he began to publish in the journal published by Hu Shi Zhongguo Ziyou articles in which he grappled with the political situation in Taiwan and with liberal and democratic ideas of Western theorists. In the following years he has translated Friedrich August von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom and John Stephen Reshetars Problems of Analyzing and Predicting Soviet Behaviour into Chinese and was appointed professor at the National Taiwan University in 1957.

1958 was a difficult year for Yin. After a public lecture in December 1958, in which Chen Duxiu was one of the four most influential modern Chinese thinkers and also of the opinion that the Three Principles of the People of Sun Yat-sen as a guide for the current China are inappropriate, Yin was of the university administration prohibited, except - curricular lectures to keep.

In the period 1960-1966 to Yin Haiguang employed significantly less with issues of the day and turned to the topic Chinese and Western culture. As a result of this research his main work The future of Chinese culture (Chinese中国 文化 的 展望) can be considered, which was released in 1966 and was immediately banned. The reasons for the ban, it said in part: The book violates " the spirit of traditional culture and violates the idea of the five human relationships within society ." Yin, who wanted to tell in their own words in this book about his research into the socio-cultural problems of China in the last 100 years, lost as a result of this prohibition and the prohibition of the journal Apollo - as their spiritual leader, he was considered - its position as a professor at National Taiwan University. The last three years of his life were mainly characterized by health and financial problems. Although Yin further intended to write a book about the history of political ideas of the Chinese modern times, but which he, until his death could not complete.

Yin Haiguang was mainly influenced by Bertrand Russell. However, this influence did not come from the Principia Mathematica, Russell co-authored with Alfred North Whitehead in the years 1910 to 1913, but by Russell's works in which turned to this more popular philosophical and socio-political issues. Yin can be seen as representative of modern empiricism - are considered, who had great confidence in the achievements of empirical science ( scientism ) - in the broadest sense.

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• University teachers (Taipei )
• University teachers ( Nanjing)
• Chinese
• Born in 1919
• Died in 1969
• Man