贝淡宁的学风是绝对的反传统,但他同时又声称自己是个儒家。他一方面希望能寓教于乐,另一方面,他不想冒犯但仍想谴责西方的学术和文化偏见。因为他认为这是儒学教育家的本分,“具有道德责任感的个人有义务抗拒主流风尚的极度膨胀,以维持平衡。”所以,那些坚信学术应该“客观”的人,那些拥抱诸如个人权利神圣不可侵犯、民主选举、劳工的合同保障、卖淫的罪恶等现代性观念的人应该做好遭遇矫正的准备。 Bei Daning’s style of study is absolutely anti-tradition, but at the same time he claims he is a Confucian. On the one hand, he hopes to entertain, on the other hand, he does not want to offend but still wants to condemn the Western academic and cultural prejudices. Because he thinks it is the duty of the Confucian educator to be “an ethically responsible individual who is obliged to resist the extreme expansion of the mainstream fashion in order to maintain a balance.” So those who believe that academics should be “objective” and those who embrace People like modernity, such as the inviolability of individual rights, democratically elected workers, the contractual security of labor and the evils of prostitution, should be prepared for a correction.