论颜子的政治思想

On Yan Zi's Political Ideology

颜子志于大舜、心向大同,认为为政的关键在于借鉴历史经验,革故鼎新、推陈出新。颜子具有一定的政治才干,主张施政要“无伐善,无施劳”,既不夸耀自己的长处,也不以劳苦之事强加于人民。他主张铸剑戟以为农器,使天下咸获永宁。虽然颜子一生中做过诸多政治尝试,但是由于身处礼崩乐坏、诸侯争霸的乱世,他的政治抱负只能化为泡影,政治尝试最终归于失败。颜子以其仁政德治思想、天下大同的社会理想和不折不挠的政治追求为后世留下了一个政治大贤的历史形象,并为世人描绘了美好的政治愿景。

Yan Zi has the ambition for Shun and has his heart in Great Harmony.He believes that the key to governance lies in learning from historical experience and bringing forth the new through the old.He has some political talent,claiming that the government should neither boast of its advantages nor impose hard work on the people.He advocates making swords and halberds as agricultural tools to keep the world peaceful.Yan Zi made many political attempts throughout his life.However,due to him living in the troubled times of ritual collapse and the princes vying for supremacy,his political ambitions came to nothing and his political attempts failed in the end.Yan Zi impressed the later generations as a historical figure of political sage with the thoughts of benevolent governance and the rule of virtue,social ideal of the world's Great Harmony,and the unrelenting political pursuit,and he described a beautiful political vision for common people.