当代儒学:如何解释社会文化的最新变迁

Modern Confucianism:How to Explain the New Change of the Social and Culture

当代中国正处于一个传统与现代、历史和现实、整体和个体多方面交叉重叠的时代,而儒学传统始终作为中国社会最基本的价值系统发挥着整合与规范的功能,始终在应然的价值规范层面提供了家国同构的价值法则,或以伦理、教化、政治三位一体、修齐治平的神圣等级推进和整合个人、家庭、国家的价值类别,主导着中国文化中有关普遍主义、整体主义或同质性、趋同化的价值特征。如何解释当代社会文化的巨大变迁如普遍主义中的个体化、整体主义中的差异性、趋同化过程中的多样性,已经成为当代儒学建设的一大使命。当代儒学的发展及其价值意义如何依靠家、国、个人多方面呈现,在很大程度上则要依据于儒学如何解释和理解,最终制约着儒学乃至当代中国社会文化之如何演进。

China currently is facing an era in which tradition and modernity,history and reality,holism and individualism overlap each other in many aspects.Confucianism has always been the most fundamental value system of Chinese society,in which it has fulfilled the function of integration and regulation,as is proper to it.Its value judgement provides the value rule of the identity of country and family in China,and promotes and integrates the value categories of individuals,families,and country with the trinity of ethics,education,politics,as well as the sacred hierarchy of“cultivation,uniformity,order and peace”(xiu qi zhi ping修齐治平).Furthermore,it also dominates the value characteristics of universalism,holism(or homogeneity),and convergence in Chinese culture.How to explain the great changes in contemporary social culture,has become a major incentive for the contemporary reconstruction of Confucianism.The development of contemporary Confucianism and how its value and significance rely on the presentation of individuals,families,and country to a large extent depends on how Confucianism is interpreted and understood.