省察“民主”:梁漱溟民主观评析

Reflecting on Democracy:A Reading of Liang Shu-ming's Thoughts of Democracy

自西方民主理论传入中国以来,政界和知识界中相当部分的人把它当作救亡图存的良药,而民主实践却屡屡受挫。作为现代新儒学思想代表,梁漱溟将民主视为一种"精神倾向"。透过梁漱溟民主思想,足可洞见近代中国民主建设面临的知识困境、精神困境及现实困境。梁漱溟对民主的审慎态度也代表了当时一部分具有保守情结的知识分子对现代性与现代社会的冷静思考,儒家文明与现代民主之结合是一个双向互动的沟通过程。

Since the west theory of democracy has been transmitted into China,lots of politicians and intellectuals consider that it is a key to solve Chinese＇s problems,but the result is failure.Liang Shu-ming,one of theorist of Neo-Confucianism,reckons democracy as a ＂spirit-tendency＂.It could say that Chinese＇s democracy has its problems： the dilemma of knowledge,spirituality and reality.Liang＇s thought is not only a model of democracy,but also a way to understand modernity and modern society.His theory represents some other intellectuals who have a conservative thought.In conclusion,the interaction of the Confucianism and west democracy could produce a new model of democracy.