如何认识和理解三纲五常的历史含义

How to Understand and Comprehend the Historical Significance of the Three Cardinal Guides and Five Constant Virtues

中华文明在经历了"轴心突破"之后,法家意义上强大的"早熟现代国家"和儒家意义上的伦理人文思想共同构成了"塑造中国文明的决定性因素"。三纲五常之所以能够成为帝制中国时代中华文化或中国文明最持久一贯的核心价值观,正是国家与儒教或政与教互动整合的必然结果。因此,必须将其放置于周秦之际整个政治体制架构的变革和中华伦理文明及人文思想演进的整体脉络中来加以理解和诠释,才能更恰当而准确地阐明古人关于纲常伦理之整个论说的根本意旨与历史含义。

After the Chinese civilization had experienced the 'axis breakthrough',the powerful 'premature modern state' in the Legalist sense and Confucian ethical and humanistic thought together constituted ' the decisive factors thatshaped Chinese civilization'.The reason that the Three Cardinal Guides and FiveConstant Virtues became most long-lasting core values of Chinese culture or China civilization in Imperial China was the interaction between the state and Confucianism or between the politics and the religion.If we want to state the fundamental meaning and historical significance of the ancient theory of the Three Cardinal Guides and Five Constant Virtues correctly,we must understand and interpret it in the context of the transition of the political system from the Zhou Dynasty to the Qin Dynasty and the evolution of the Chinese morality and civilization and its humanistic thought.