The Late Period of Qing Dynasty: the Lose of National Self-Confidence and the Last of Pragmatic Reason——the 1st Paper about Modernization of the Chinese Ethos;

The most obvious thoughts were pragmatic reason, pursuing form of formal beauty and man is integral part of nature.

Although the leaders of New Cultural Movement wanted to fight down Conficians,the flag of science they handed up originated from the pragmatic reason of Chinese Big Tradition,and it is because there is something connected between the pragmatic reason of Chinese tradition and .

Such explainnation embody that realize conscience judge which cannot explain through reason and feeling mingling ,look after the acceptability of law explainnation through practical sense,look after practice mutual act of law explainnation through compromise intent,and realize the amalgamation of human intercourse monaction .

The article starts with the form of the western rationality and concludes that What in Chinese tradition is “Practical rationality” but not the rationalism in the western culture.

The orientation of textbooks function demonstrated the practical rationality.

It changed from multivariate study to centralized study,from academic research to political practicality and finally headed for the dead end of political practicality,which resulted from “practical rationality”.

Such three basic areas as our country s criminal legislation,criminal jurisdiction and theory research of criminal law reflect that pragmatism is the basic spirit of criminal law in China.