思考“人民性”——托克维尔论民风民情

Thinking the Character of Nation:Tocqueville on Mores

亚历克西·德·托克维尔是19世纪法国著名思想家。在对托克维尔的研究中,很多学者注意到了托克维尔所表达的一个中心思想:民风民情。民风民情是托克维尔思想的核心概念,也是支撑现代自由体制的重要基础。从民风民情与现代自由体制之间的关系角度来考察托克维尔的思想,可以发现,正是在对历史的反思之中,托克维尔提出了一个富有内涵的时代命题:怎样认识在社会转型变革时代中的人民状态和民风民情,从而避免革命的不断发生,真正建立起现代社会?这一思想不仅是托克维尔一生所着力思考的问题,也是他提供给我们独特的分析方式。

Alexis De Tocqueville is a great thinker in France in the 19 th century,he expressed mores as key concept which play important role of his thought and foundation of the modern society in his works,many scholars think that it is worth to research,but there aren＇t systematic study of it in the past years.this paper focus on the concept of Mores with respective of conceptual history though researching of Tocqueville＇s work and conclude that Tocqueville hope to tell the politicians should understand the mores and try to change the mores,meanwhile ask people reflecting by themselves,thus finally avoid the birth of the revolution,and build modern society in reality in France.