儒家"诚信"特色及其现代转化

Characteristics of confucian faith and its modern transformation

儒家"诚信"作为具有中国特色的古典伦理形态,与现代"信用"有许多本质差异。要实现其现代转化,必须达到:由适用于"熟人"社会的特定伦理,转变为适用于"陌生人"社会的普遍伦理;由一般人伦伦理,引入经济伦理;由主观"自诚"模式,转变为契约"合意"模式;由从属于封建礼教的次要道德义务,转变为从属于"社会公正"的道德义务,并进而提升为反映现代人本质的基本道德义务。为达此转化,需要创设诸如完善市场机制、推行宪政民主、培养契约文明观念等社会文化条件。这将是一个艰难漫长的自然历史进程。

Confucian faith,a classical ethical formation of chinese characteristic,differs in many aspects from modern 'credit'.The author of the paper first points out,to achieve this transformation,we must do the following:transform 'acquaintance'particular ethics into 'stranger'general ethics;human relations ethics into economic one;subjective'faithful to oneself'pattern into contracted 'suitabletoall'pattern;minor moral duty of feudal ethics into 'social justice'moral duty and then into the basic one of modern people.Therefore,we should create such cultural prerequisites as perfecting market mechanism,promoting constitutionalist democracy and cultivating contracted civil idea.Of course,this is long and tortuous course.