从改良性修补到批判性重构——中国价值观念现代化的艰难历程和根本出路

From a Reparative Reformation to a Critical Reconstruction——The Difficult Course and the Fundamental Way Out of Chinese Modernization in Value Ideas

中国传统价值观念的现代转换,其过程是艰难的、曲折的,其方式是被动的、消极的,其结果是修补性的。这种对待中国传统价值观念的改良态度一直是中国现代化迟迟难以实现、举步维艰的根本性障碍。到20世纪80年代,在邓小平的思想影响和权威作用下,我国走上了解放思想、更新观念、改革开放的道路,中国社会也开始了从传统经济体制向现代经济体制的转换和从传统农业文明向现代工业文明的转换。这种转换是中国从传统社会走向现代社会的深刻变革,然而,这一变革远未完成。到今天,中国经济社会转换的进程已经达到了这样的程度:在需要进一步更新观念的同时,使生长着的与现代经济社会生活相适应的现代价值观念逐渐达到完备和系统化,并在此基础上构建起现代价值体系。只有尽快建立起现代价值体系,并通过这种价值体系的指导和规范作用,中国社会的重构才能最终完成,中国的现代化才能最终实现。在这种社会历史情况下,再也不能只对中国传统价值观念进行改良性修补,而必须从根本上总体上对中国传统价值观念进行批判性重构,使之真正现代化。

The course of the modern transformation of Chinese traditional idea of value is difficult and tortuous,the way of the transformation is passive and negative,and the consequence of the transformation is reparative.The reformist attitude to Chinese traditional idea of value has been the fundamental obstacle of realizing Chinese modernization.Until the80' of20 th century,China,under the leadership of Den Xiaoping,has taken the road of emancipating the thinking,renewing the ideas,reforming and opening to the world.Also Chinese society began the transformation from the traditional economic system to the modern economic system and from the traditional agricultural civilization to the modern industrial civilization.This transformation is a profound social revolution of China from the traditional society to the modern one,but the course of revolution has not so far been finished.Now Chinese social transformation has achieved such degree to require further renewal of ideas,make the ideas of value modernized and to construct the modern system of value.Only by establishing the modern system of value as soon as possible,and by the direction and regulation of the system of value,Chinese modernization can finally be realized.Under the social and historical condition,we cannot still only repair reformatively Chinese traditional idea of value but reconstruct critically it so as to make it modernized.