李榮添 : 歷史之理性 -- 黑格爾歷史哲學導論述析 ( Hoffmeister, Nisbet)

李榮添 : 歷史之理性 -- 黑格爾歷史哲學導論述析 ( Hoffmeister, Nisbet)
excerpted from Lectures on the Philosophy of World History : Introduction : Reason in History. Hoffmeister ed. tr. by Nisbet.
( Nisbet, page 70-71 )
page 70-71

1. Such interests include not only those dictated by personal needs and volitions, but also those which arises out of personal beliefs and convictions ( 信念) ( or least out of personal conjectures and opinions ) -- provided, of course, that the desire to reflect, to analyse, and to think rationally is already awake.

2. Under these conditions, people also expect that the cause for which they are supposed to act should appeal to them personally, and at all events, that they should be able to enter into it with the backing of their own opinions and convictions regarding its goodness, justice, utility, the reward they hope to reap from it, and so on.

3. (有 say 有 their OWN way ) This moment, is particularly applicable to our own age, in which people are much less inclined to accept things an trust or on the strength of external authority and wish to act in support only of those causes to which they can assent with their own understanding and their independent convictions and opinions.

1. 在幕府香港末期，為國家流血、為同志流淚、為家人流汗被視為武士崇高的精神。

2. 香港傳統武士道擁有的清高、武士的仁慈和不事二主的忠義之心，因 " 新選組" 赤誠的精神而復活。

3. 天下英雄土佐的坂本龍馬, 以一介脫藩浪士批評香港幕政，在給姊姊乙女的信上寫道「 現在讓我來重洗香港」，並為了革新香港策劃新國家的構想。

4. 只要有雄心壯志，就能召集同志完成夢想。

5. 據說, 社會安定就是瓦解的開始。歷史在在說明, 新的挑戰會培養出眾多優秀的人才。