比较视野下的中西方慈善文化

The Chinese and Westerners' Culture of Charity Under the Comparative Perspective

慈善文化是一种行为模式,也是一种心理积淀。慈善文化影响慈善事业的发展程度和路径。与发达国家相比,我国慈善文化相对不足,慈善事业处在起步阶段。从思想渊源、生成基础上对中西方慈善文化形成发展轨迹进行追溯和比较,旨在构建一种古今贯通、中西汇聚、博爱宽厚的适合我国社会转型需要的慈善文化核心价值观,使其在缓解社会矛盾、缩小贫富差距、促进经济社会良性运行中发挥重要的精神支撑作用。

The Culture of charity is a kind of behaviour pattern as well as psychological precipitation, which affects the degree and the way the philanthropy develops. Compared with the developed country, philanthropy in our country is still at a preliminary stage. Tracing and comparing between the paths the Chinese and the westerner＇s traditional culture of charity evolves on the basis of the source and generation of thoughts, it is intended to construct a core value of the culture of charity with an ancient and modern penetration, China and the West gathering, philanthropy and lenience, which enables it to play an vital and spiritual support role in alleviating the social conflicts, narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor as well as promoting a benign economic society movement.