对中国近代民权含义与特性的几点认识

Comment on Meanings and Characteristics of the Modern Concept of People's Right

中国近代民权是反对专制的革命话语。中国近代民权观继承并改造传统政治文化中的民本价值观,有选择地借鉴西方各种政治学说的适用成分但又有别于西方民主观。它含义复杂,在不同的历史情境中有不同所指。它与民本、民主、人权、自由、平等既有联系也有区别。中国近代民权观呈现出以下特征:工具主义、理想主义、集体主义。

Civil rights in modern China is a revolutionary term that stands for the idea of antiautocracy. The concept of civil rights in modern China inherits and reforms the people-oriented traditional value concept, and selectively borrows relevant aspects in western political studies. As a considerably complicated item with different meanings in different historical situations, it has special implications that not only relates to but also distinguishes from the normally recognized values such as democracy, human rights, freedom, equality and so on. The Chinese concept of modern civil rights is marked by the following features, utilitarianism, idealism and collectivism.