柏拉图、孔子之理想等级社会比较初探——谈“贤人政治”

A Preliminary Comparison of the Ideal Grade Societies of Plato and Confucius

任何一个人类社会都难逃等级结构的支撑,或者动态,或者静态.这或许正是人类文明发展的生命力所在。对于柏拉图和孔子这两位具有清晰历史人格的伟大思想家而言,几近相同的社会背景催生了二人构建静态等级社会的政治理想,为解决同一政治困他们不约而同地转向了对贤人政治的追求,而结果却是双双失意。

No mankind society can be free from the support of a grade structure of society,dynamic or static. This probably is the vitality of human civilization development. As for Plato and Confucius, the two great thinkers with a clear personality in human history, they lived in a similar background and were faced with a similar political plight, which led them to pursue a similar solution,i, e. the establishment of an ideal grade society, the able men politics,but both in vain.