社会同情与公共精神的涵育

Social Sympathy and Public Spirit Cultivation

社会同情与公共精神相得益彰。一方面,社会同情是公共精神的情感品质,是表征公共人之为德性人的亲社会情感;另一方面,公共精神是社会同情的善的定向,它凭借公共人身份给予社会同情持续的精神力量。据此,社会同情既能为公共精神的涵育提供情感"热认知",以促成"你应当"的外在规范转化为"我应当"的精神追求;还能够为公共精神创造情感动力,让公共人不仅着眼于"应当",且立足于"能够"去构建良善的公共生活,促进公共精神的涵育。

Social sympathy and public spirit can promote each other.On the one hand,social sympathy is an emotional quality of public spirit,which characterizing the citizens as virtues.On the other hand,the public spirit is a good orientation of social sympathythat gives the sustained spiritual power for it.So the social sympathy can not only provide emotional“thermal cognition”for public spiritto make the external norms of“you should”translates into the pursuit virtue of“I should”,but also creates emotional power for public spirit,so that citizens should focus on“should”and based on“can”to build a good public lifeto promote the public spirit formation.