魏相政治思想初探

An Analysis of Wei Xiang’s Political Thought

魏相是西汉时期有名的政治家,他的政治思想包括“奉顺阴阳”的顺动思想、“各有常职”的四时政治原则以及重民思想和法先王思想。从整体上讲,他所修持的是一种含有阴阳灾异内容、具有神学倾向的儒家思想。它不仅是当时普遍存在于政治生活中的神秘主义思想的一种反映,也对当时乃至以后政治思想的形成与发展产生了较大影响。

Wei Xiang is a famous statesman in Western Han Dynasty. His political thought includes the principle of complying with Yin and Yang, the political principle of governing in accordance with the changing situations, the thought of loving the common people and the thought of setting up the law after the past rulers. In general, Wei Xiang's political thought is a theological thought of Confucian school, which includes the ideology of Yin and Yang and disaster. It was a reflection of mysticism that pervasively existed in the political life of that time and had a profound influence on the formation of the political thought of that dynasty and that of later dynasties.