社会治理视域下的晋法家伦理

On Jin Legalist Ethics under the Perspective of Social Governance

在中国先秦时期的众多思想流派中,晋法家是较早产生社会意识,并从社会现实出发来建构实践理论的。基于此,晋法家的伦理显现出很强的社会伦理性质,即他们更愿意从社会秩序建构与社会变革的角度来对相关的伦理问题进行思考和回答。因此,晋法家的伦理更强调从当时社会现实中人们的行为和价值取向出发,以他律性和规范性为核心,以整个社会秩序的恢复与国家存续为目的,对人们的行为进行规训,在当时构成了一种能够有效进行社会治理的伦理体系。

Among many schools of thought in the pre-Qin period of China, the Jin Legalists had social consciousness earlier and constructed practical theory from the perspective of social reality. Based on this, the ethics of Jin Legalists shows a strong social ethical nature, that is, they are more willing to think and answer relevant ethical issues from the perspective of social order construction and social change. Therefore, the ethics of the Jin Legalists emphasized that starting from the behavior and value orientation of people in the social reality at that time, with heteronomy and standardization as the core, with the purpose of the restoration of the whole social order and the survival of the country, they disciplined people’s behavior, which at that time constituted an ethical system that could effectively carry out social governance.