儒家传统与当前我国的民主文化构建

The Influence of Confucian Tradition and the Construction of Democratic Culture in Current China

儒家思想是一种利他主义思想,儒家经典中要求"仁者爱人""义大于利""己所不欲,勿施于人",在与人交往中要求"克己复礼",同时我们会发现这种利他主义是一种有差别的利他主义。每个人首先存在于他所属的圈子里,对于他所从属的圈子具有依附关系,个体对于距离其所属圈子远近不同的人有不同的对待原则。而民主制度所要求的民主文化是一种平等的文化,这种差别性的文化传统必然会阻碍具有平等性的民主文化的滋生和发展。

Confucian thought is a kind of altruism thought, and the classical works of Confucian school demand that'the benevolent loves others', 'righteousness outweighs interests', 'do not do what you do not want to receive to others'. When we interact with others we should 'be self-restraint and restore of rites'. At the same time we will find that the altruism in Confucianism is a kind of unbalanced altruism. First and foremost, everybody exists in the coterie he belongs to, and has a dependence on the community he has lived in; how he treats others depends on the distance those persons to his own coterie. The democratic culture accompanying with the democratic system is a culture of equality, and the cultural tradition of the difference and unbalance is bound to hinder the growth and development of the equality democratic culture.