先秦儒家德治思想的几个问题

儒家的德治思想从诞生之日起就期望作为一种可以参考的统治模式 ,但直到孟子时代也没有被统治者采用 ,原因是无论孔子或者孟子都没有找到这种思想与现实统治者的切合点 ;到战国末期 ,荀子对传统德治思想作了彻底的改造 ,德治思想才成为统治思想中的内容。先秦儒家的德治思想有九项内容 ,这些内容在一定程度上体现了民众的利益 ,但它们不过都是为了统治阶级能够长治久安而释放的怀柔声音罢了 ,统治阶级或者它们的代言人都不可能站在民众的角度发展这种思想 ,更不可能把这种思想推向民主的结局。

Some ideas of the "Rule of Virtue" of the Pre-Qin Confucian School

The rule of virtue of Pre-Qin dynasty Confucian school was im po rtant achievement of Confucian summarizing and developing on ancient political c ulture, his purpose was to find one kind of ruling style to give the rulers who were in dangerous condition, but it had not been accepted by the rulers until Me ngZi, because neither Confucian nor MengZi didn't found the point what the ruler s wanted to accept. At the end of ZhanGuo Period, after XunZi changed the "rule of virtue" completely, the rulers accepted this thought. It had nine parts, some of them stood for the common people, but they were all rulers' yearning for rul ing voice, the rulers and their spokesmen all could not stood for the common peo ple to develop this thought, and pushed it to democracy.