和谐社会的构建:从伦理中轴到制度中轴——论扬弃和超越儒家和谐治理观

The Building of Harmonious Society: from Ethic to System

儒家和谐治理观对历史中国和现代东亚国家的巩固和发展起了重要作用,并可以为当今中国的发展和进步提供可资借鉴的思想资源。但由于其存在着以伦理为中轴、制度性资源太少的根本性缺陷,不能作为解决当今社会政治问题的现成方案。欲实现社会和谐和长治久安,必须扬弃和超越儒家和谐治理观,走出重“政治人”建设轻政治制度建设的历史误区,开辟一条靠制度执政、靠制度治国的新路。制度建设和创新的核心是民主与法治,其中又以党和政府的制度改革为重点。

The Confucian view of harmonious governance has played an important role in consolidating and developing the historical Chinese states and the modem East Asia states, and can also provide a helpful thought resource for modern Chinese development and progress. Nevertheless, given its fundamental flaws of overemphasizing ethics and lacking the system resource, it can＇t be a ready plan of resolving the social and political problems of modern China. In order to realize the social harmony and stability, it is essential to abandon and transcend the Confucian view of harmonious governance, to do away with the historical misunderstanding of emphasizing political ethics and overlooking political system construction, and to open a road to ruling by system. The key to system construction and innovation is democracy and ruling by law which focuses on the system reform of the Party and government.