伦理与国家:民国初年读书人对家庭伦理的维护

Ethics and Nation:The Reconstruction of Family Ethics in Early Republican China by Intellectuals

对于民国初年的读书人而言,如何建设新生的共和国家是一个棘手的问题。除了政治和法律制度的建设外,共和国还呼吁道德重建。与效法欧美的思路不同,不少态度保守的读书人选择从传统中寻找思想资源,试图通过读经和孔教入宪的方式来保存伦理道德。无论借助的是阅读还是宪法,他们希望在一个急速变动的时代重新确认伦理的意义。虽然存伦常于共和时代的努力失败了,但是他们调适的取向却表达了文化民族主义的诉求,呈现出民国初年思想界的复杂性。

For the national elites in early Republican China,how to build a new Republic is a complicated issue.Besides the political and legal construction,the new republic calls for moral rebuilding.Instead of taking America and Europe as models,some conservative Chinese intellectuals turn to traditional resources with the hope to preserve and redefine ethical principles by reading classics and constitutionalizing Confucianism in a rapidly changing era.Although their endeavors to restore ethics in republicanism fail,they speak for the cultural conservativism,which suggests the complicity of intellectual thinking in early Republican China.