象征与合法性:帝制中国的合法化途径与策略

Symbol and Legitimacy:Ways and Strategies of Legalization of Imperial China

政治统治可被视为权力合法性的实践与生成过程,而合法性实践既是统治者迎合"文化剧本"、即呈现和表演都深藏于一个文化传统中的合法性信仰的过程,又是统治者对这些合法性信仰的操控过程。正是这种表演和谋划,直接导致了帝制中国的一整套合法性的象征系统如礼乐制度、政治制度、政策过程与文化符号等等;存在于这一象征系统中的元叙事,就是以现实中的君主("时君")为指向的合法性论证,各种种种后果主义、功利主义、化约主义和命定论则是这种合法性论证的基本策略和逻辑,其目的在于缩小甚至混淆现实中的统治者(时君)与"理想君主"之间的界限,以缓解那"永恒的合法性困境"。

Political rule can be regarded as the practice and build process of the legitimacy,the practice of legitimacy is the one that rulers meet ＂Cultural script＂,and that rulers control the performance of beliefs.It is this performance and planning,led directly to symbolic systems such as ritual and political system,policy process and cultural symbols,etc.The narrative within this symbolic system is the argumentation of real monarch（＂the king＂）.