禅让制与儒家理想探析

在原始社会英雄时代,国家已处于形成的前夜,权力不可能无偿地实现转移,所以尧、舜、禹之间的禅让传说极有可能是儒家根据自己的政治需要而编造出来的戏剧性的历史。这段历史的出现与儒家的后瞻式思维、孟子的地主阶级立场和儒家的中庸哲学有密切的关系。

On the System of Abidicating and Harding over the Crown to Anther Person and Substance of the Confucianists Essence

In the heroic era of the primitive society, the state had been on the eve of formation and it was impossible that the power was freely transferred from one person to another. Therefore ,it was very likely that the legend of abdicating and handing over the crown to another person was the dramatic history that was concocted according to their own political needs by the confucianists. The appearance of this history was intimately related to the Confucian turn-back thought, the Mencius'landlord class Stand and the Confucian philosophy of the mean.