略论儒家文化中的和谐思维

Harmonious thinking in Confucian culture

构建社会主义和谐社会需要确立和谐思维。从中国传统文化特别是儒家文化来看,所谓和谐思维就是以和谐为世界图景和价值目标、并以和谐的世界图景和价值目标规范人们的认识活动和实践活动的思维。和谐思维表达的是一种思维方式,并具有多样性、层次性、有序性、相对性等特征。和谐思维虽然离不开矛盾思维而要以矛盾思维为基础,但它作为人们认识、理解、谋划甚至描述事物及其关系的思维方式,本质上是一种系统思维。

To construct socialist harmonious society, harmonious thinking is called for. From the per- spective of traditional Chinese culture, especially the Confucian culture, harmonious thinking can be understood as taking world harmony as the target and standardizing people＇s cognition and practice with the principle. Harmonious thinking is a mode of thinking with characteristics of diversity, hier- archy, orderliness and relativity. Though harmonious thinking is based on contradictory thinking, it is essentially a systematic thinking by which people get to know, understand, plan and even describe things and their relationships.