民本主义的现代政治价值批判

Criticism on the Modern Political Value of Populism

民本主义作为儒家思想之一在中国源远流长,自夏商到清末而不绝。在21世纪的今天,面对着法治、人权和民主的文明浪潮,很多人又将民本主义作为重要的政治思想提了出来,以应对现代中国的政治改革。有些学者认为民本主义是胜过西方民主的良药,有的学者在倡导以新的民本主义为基底的民权学说。民本主义并非是一个好东西,不能将其过度拔高为适用于现代社会的政治思想。

As one view of Confucianism in China,populism has a long history,lasting from the Xia to the late Qing Dynasty.In the twenty-first century,facing the civilization waves of rule of law,human rights and democracy,many people turn populism as an important political and ideological to response to modern China＇s political reform.Some scholars believe that populism is useful medicine which is better than Western democracy;some scholars think that there are some factors about human rights in populism.This paper argues that populism is not a good thing,and we can not overstate it as a political thought which could apply to modern society