社群主义与个人主义争论的实质与启示

西方社群主义与个人主义之间的争论表明其在价值观上并没有根本分歧，不同的观点主要体现在方法论上，其实质就是要用社群主义者的研究方法来理解西方个人权利价值观得以确立的历史渊源。与之迥然不同的是中国儒家文化传统，是一种“关系型社群主义文化”，解读这种文化，在方法论上与西方社群主义的主张没有本质不同，但在价值观上出现系统差异。

The Essence and Enlightenment about the Arguments between Communitarianism and Individualism

We found the arguments between individualism and communitarianism did not have fundamental divergences in terms of value, but mainly reflected on the different points of methodology, that is, they do not agree with Rawls by a rational construct way to interpret values of Western individualism. On the study of history of the West, it just shows the process of Western Individualism to be cultivated. Traditional Chinese Confucian culture is totally different from the west culture. It is a kind of Guanxi communitarianism culture under state regulation. To understand Chinese people''s behavior, being nothing fundamentally different from Western communitarianism in methodology but Chinese idea about value obviously different form the values of Western individualism.