论戊戌变法后的维新派民权思想

Analyzing the Civil Right Idea of Reform Scholars after Wuxu Putsch

维新派的民权思想作为一种政治理论和社会思潮,适应了近代中国政治和民族救亡的迫切需要。戊戌变法后维新派的民权思想并没有消亡,他们依然高举自己的民权旗帜,在总结变法失败经验教训的基础上,进一步丰富和发展了民权思想的内涵。他们不再沉湎于就政体变化的角度来奢谈民主,而是将自由平等和独立的国民看作立宪政治的基石;不再借助于圣人的权威来宣扬参与政治改革的自觉性,而是直截了当地倡导自由平等,要求树立"新民"榜样,阐明了国民参政意识对于建立民族国家的重要意义,并深刻影响了后来的清末立宪运动和辛亥革命运动中民权主义的勃兴。

As a political theory and ethos, the civil rights of reform scholars adapts to the need of political reality and save the nation from extinction in modern China. Reform scholars still call on the thought of civil rights after Wuxu Putsch and develop its connotation more on the base of their experience. They think of a free and independent country as the basement of constitutionality. They advocate to build up 'new civilian' and illustrate the important meaning of participation in politics for founding a nation-state. It deeply influences the subsequent social and political movement.