儒家政治秩序运行的调控矢量

Controlling Vectors for the Operation of Confucian Political Order

儒家思想是一个以全面安排人间政治秩序为目标的政治设计学说。在现实层面,儒家构想和设计的政治秩序模式是德治和礼治的政治秩序。为了保障它们的长久运行,儒家在建构均平、德治、礼治、三纲、仁政等基础矢量的同时,又设置了家长式权威、中庸和民本三个调控矢量。其中,家长式权威是控制器、中庸是平衡器、民本是稳定器,它们对政治秩序的运行具有决定性作用。

Confucianism was a theory of political design which aims to construct an ideal political order in an all-round way. On realistic level, the political order Confucianists conceived and designed was a combi- nation of moral governance and proprietary governance. In order to maintain the operation of this political order, while constructing a series of primary vectors, such as equation, moral governance, proprietary governance, three principles of conduct, benevolent government, and so on, Confucianists also developed three controlling vectors, including paternalistic authority, happy medium and people-oriented. Among these three vectors, paternalistic authority was a controller, happy medium was a balancer and people-ori- ented was a stabilizer, together playing a decisive role in the operation of Confucian political order.