先秦儒家公私领域略论

On Public Realm and Private Realm of Confucianism in the Pre-Qin Period

先秦儒家思想中的公私领域关系具有依赖性、连续性、单向性三大特征。其中公私领域依赖性、连续性的理论运思,与西方强调公私对抗、认为公私领域分属完全异质世界的理论大为异趣。公私领域单向性的特质,是阻碍中国横向社会关系健康发展的根源。当代中国的社会建设可以借鉴公私领域依赖性、连续性的积极元素,同时也要避免单向性的思想缺陷。把政治权力与血缘亲情同时关进制度之笼,方可克服儒家公私领域单向性的负面影响。

The public realm and the private realm of Confucianism are characterized by their interdependency,continuity and uni-directionality. The former tw o characteristics are against the w estern thoughts that the public realm and the private realm are tw o completely different and protesting w orlds.The characteristic of uni-directionality is a basic obstacle in the healthy development of horizontal social relations in China. In the social construction of modern China,the positive factors in their inter-dependency and continuity should be absorbed and the defects of their uni-directionality should be resisted. Only by encaging political pow er and blood ties in related rules and regulations can the passive influence of their uni-directionality be limited.