传统尊卑观念的重新审视

传统尊卑观念,既是一个同政治制度紧密相连的关于人们社会地位的政治等级观念,也是一个同政治哲学和传统伦理道德紧密相连的价值观念。它的产生,既有社会政治根源也有哲学和伦理思想渊源,本质上是封建宗法制度（礼制）的产物。而其长期流行则是封建统治者依靠政令刑罚的强制手段实行＂礼治＂统治和儒家礼育长期教化双重作用的结果。传统尊卑观念,既包含君权至上的贵贱有等、尊卑有别的政治等级观念,也含有礼敬老人和在人格上尊重普通人的积极因素。历史上,它起到了禁锢人的思想、束缚人的行为、维护封建统治的作用,直接导致了我国社会平等观念的缺失和法制观念的淡薄,严重阻碍了社会的进步。今天,它并未随着封建社会的终结而销声匿迹,仍然在深深影响着国人。重新审视传统尊卑观念,去芜存菁,对于建设社会主义和谐社会仍然具有重要的现实意义。

RE-EXAMINING THE TRADITIONAL NOBLE AND HUMBLE IDEAS

The traditional noble and humble ideas is not only the concept of political hierarchy about people's social status and possesses closed relationship with political system,but also a value concept which possesses closed relationship with political philosophy and traditional ethics.The birth of this concept could trace back to political fountainhead,philosophic and ethical thoughts,while essentially it is the outcome of feudal patriarchal clan system.The prevalence of this concept is results of rule by rites ...