晚清时期制度性腐败对官员民本主义政德的消蚀

儒学的民本主义始终是中国封建统治者治国安邦的重要指导思想,其运行主要是自律性人治性的,而以“私天下”的皇权混杂入社会公权的封建君主专制对社会广大民众的侵夺是无条件的、制度刚性的。这种根本的制度性腐败,具有远大于依赖官员的自觉而运行的儒学的民本主义政德的巨大能量,尽管封建官吏中民本主义政德的真诚实践者不乏其人,但制度性腐败对官员民本主义政德的消蚀却无时无刻不在更广范围以更大势头发生。晚清个案极为典型。其于当代的启示是防腐倡廉须从制度建设抓起。

The erosion of the humanistic political virtue by the institutional corruption in the Late Qing Dynasty

The humanism of Confuciansm was always an important guiding principle for the Chinese Feudalistic rulers to govern the country, whose operation was mainly based on self-discipline. But the harm brought to the great civilians by the feudalist dictatorship as a result of the ruler' s "absolute power" was unconditional and institutionally rigid. This institutional corruption was by far more powerful than the self-discipline based humanism of Confuciansm. Though the practioners of humanism were numerous among the feudalistic officials, the humanistic political virtue was eroded all the time by the institutional corruption. The cases in the Late Qing Dynasty were more true. The implication for the contemporary age is that anti-corruption should start with intstitutional construction.