社会不公正与心灵境界——兼论儒家相关伦理的运作

Social Unfairness and the Realm of Thought --Also on the Management of the Concerned Confucian Ethics

社会不公正是人类世界普遍可见的现象。在我国有其存在的深刻的历史根源 ,尤其是儒家伦理思想对中国人道德观念的深刻影响 ,使得社会公正在具体实施过程中 ,总是难以跨越三重阻碍 ,那就是等级差序和血缘亲情 ,义务本位 ,以及权威主义。现实的不可抗拒 ,儒家的先哲们只有归依心灵 ,从精神上追求做人的公正的境遇 ,独善其身 ,以理念影响行为 ,从而实现社会公正的美好理想。

Social unfairness is a general phenomenon in human society. It has its profound historical reasons in China. Especially the Confucian ethic thought had a deep impression on Chinese people's morality. All these helped to bring about three obstacles in the process of carrying out the social fairness. Those are rank difference and genetic connection, obligation standard and authority. Reality is hard to resist and the Confucian scholars have no way to go but to depend on their mind. They seek the fair realm of being a man spiritually. They try to be righteous alone in the community and try to affect their behavior by ideas in order to realize the beautiful ideal of social fairness.