论中国价值传统的转化与价值体系的重建

Reconstruction of China's Value Traditions

中国的价值传统是在中华民族五千年历史发展过程中形成的。这一价值传统到近代已经衰落,从而不能为中国的社会变革和发展提供思想资源。近代以来,中国价值体系发生了根本性转变,一方面,马克思主义现代价值经中国化而逐渐成为主导价值,指引中国的现代化方向和进程;另一方面,西方资本主义现代价值既对中国现代化产生了重要的推动作用,也严重地侵蚀了中国的传统价值并使之日益减损。要全面建设小康社会,就要用现代发展观点,重估中国的价值传统,并在马克思主义指引下加以改造,同时吸收西方现代价值的合理成分,使之成为中国特色社会主义价值体系的重要组成部分。

China＇s value traditions, which took shape in the long history of nearly 5000 years, have been on the decline, and therefore could not serve as intellectual resources for current social transformation and development in China. In recent years, China＇s value traditions have undergone fundamental changes. On one hand, localized Marxist values become dominant, guiding China＇s mod- ernization; on the other, Western capitalist values are undermining Chinese traditional values and exer- ting negative impacts on （＇hina＇s modernization. To avoid such undermining for a well-off society, China＇s value traditions, as an integral component of the socialist value system with Chinese characteristics, need to be re-evaluated with a modernized outlook, and to he reconstructed under the guidance of Marxism.