李觏人口思想的基本特征及时代意义

Basic Features and Time Significance of Li Gou′s population thinking

指出李觏人口思想的主要内容是倡导爱民、重民,强调官员要体察民情,要对人民合理分工;统治者应设法让具有劳动能力的人都参加劳作,使适龄男女相亲相爱,居家双乐;在深层地剖析了人性的基础上,李觏的人口思想与其经济、政治、哲学思想及儒家伦理密不可分,善于把握住事物的联系,以此完善发展其人口理论,具有鲜明的时代特征。

It is held that the main content of Li Gou＇s population thinking is to advocate taking care of the people and paying attention to the people, experience and observe the situation of the people by officials, make reasonable labor division for the people, take measures to allow all the people capable to work to participate in labor, and make the men and women in marriage age love each other to have a happy family. Based on an in-depth analysis of personality, Li Gou＇s population thinking is closely related to his political, economic and philosophic thinking and Confucian ethics. He is good at grasping the connections of matters from which to perfectly develop his population theory, so his population theory has a vivid feature of the times.