政治道德还是道德政治——评我国传统的德治思想

Political Ethics or Ethical Politics——Comment on Chinese Traditional Rule of Virtue

政治道德和道德政治是两个内涵截然不同的概念。以传统儒家思想为基础,以“仁”、“礼”、“忠”、“义”、“民本”等政治道德为主要内容的德治其实是一种把道德理想化、绝对化的道德政治。再加上它以“人性善论”为出发点,以道德自律为主要实现途径,其实是一种政教合一式的、以人治为本质的道德政治,所以它最终没能使我国政治踏着传统的脚步走向规范化、现代化。

Both concepts of political ethics and ethical politics are different. The rule of virtue based on confuciam and taking political ethics such as mercy, gift meaning,filial piety loyalty ,justice,＂ taking folk as root＂ as main contents is a kind of ethical politics in effect, in addition, its mass foundation is fragile, regarding ＂morals contain by oneself＂ as the mainly realizing way, so it can not escape the destine of fall finally, can not make the traditional politics of our country move towards standardizing and modernizing rude.