儒家社群主义略论

儒家社群主义作为一种社会与政治思想,其基本观念在先秦儒家那里就已具备。但作为一种完备的思想理论体系,却完成于宋代理学,这就是“四书学”理论系统的提出。作为一种社会与政治理论,儒家社群主义除了可以作为西方自由主义的补充起作用之外,它的更重要的思想史意义在于:它可以为东亚,主要是儒家传统文化圈的国家与地区的政治民主提供思想资源。儒家社群主义新一轮的发展前景在于:经过自我批判以及与西方自由主义的对话,实现儒家思想由社群主义向自由主义的转化。

On Confucian Communitarianism

As a social and political thought, basic communitarian ideas appeared in the Pre-chin Confucianism. However, it formed a systematic can Confucian communitarinism revise Western liberalism, but will become the intellectual resources for the development of some democratic politics in the Eastern Asian countries and regions. The prospects of Confucian communitarinism lie on its self-criticism and discourse with Western liberalism, by which it may transfer itself from communitarinism into liberalism.