市民社会在现代国家发展中的作用

The Importance of Civil Society in the Development of National Modernization

本文针对国家在现代化进程中所发挥的作用 ,旨在探讨市民社会在这一进程中的功能。文章不仅对市民社会在现实中发挥的功能进行了客观性描述 ,并据此从中推导出其发展的内在要求。本文的阐述既体现了民主制度与市民社会的特定伦理 ,也符合事物本身的逻辑事理。笔者认为 ,惟有将国家推行民主化带来的市民化结果理解为一种道德现象才是恰当的。

In contrast to the importance of the state in the modernization process,this essay attempts to shed light on the functions of civil society in the course of national modernization.It provides an objective account of how civil society functions in reality and thus deduces the intrinsic requirements for the development of a civil society.The arguments in the essay not only embody the unique ethics of a democratic system and civil society,but also conform to the reasoning of modernization itself.It is inappropriate unless the emergence and strengthening of civil society as a result of the state's promotion of democracy is understood as a moral phenomenon.