传统忠德及其当代价值辨析

On Traditional Loyalty Virtue and Its Contemporary Values

作为传统道德,忠德在其产生之初主要是对人对事的尽心竭力,强调的是忠信、忠恕的待人处事原则。从忠德产生、发展、演变的历史看,进入封建社会后,忠德长期被偏狭地作为忠君的代名词。近代道德革命清算的主要是忠君道德这一"负能量"。忠德中的忠于社稷、忠于职守、忠信诚实、忠恕待人等"正能量"则与我们今天提倡的社会主义核心价值观中个人层面之爱国、敬业、诚信、友善精神高度契合。实现传统忠德当代转换对培育和践行社会主义核心价值观具有重大而深远的现实意义。

As a traditional virtue,loyalty at very beginning underlines wholeheartedness,sincerity and benevolence.The virtue was understood narrowly as the synonym of loyalty to the monarch for the long time of feudal society,a"negative energy"which has been eliminated in the recent moral revolutions.On the contrary,the"positive energies"in the virtue,including loyalty to the country,honor of duty,fidelity,honesty and benevolence,are highly consistent with some of the socialist core value like patriotism,dedication,integrity and friendship.Hence transformation of the traditional loyalty to the modern is of great significance for our formation and practice of socialist core values.We should take its essence and reject its dross.