刍议儒家文化的两种形态

科学地理解儒家文化与现代化的关系,一定要区分儒家文化的两种形态,即死形态和活形态,而不能笼统地、抽象地对待儒家文化.通过研究儒家文化的死形态,我们可以去寻找、发掘其中有价值的东西,即对现代化建设有益的东西,使之重新活跃和传播.研究儒家文化的活形态,我们发现,它不再是原来的以纯粹形态出现的儒家文化,而是与其他文化交融在一起的混合形态.它对中国现代化的进程或是起促进作用或是起阻碍作用.

A Brief Opinion on the Two Patterns of the Confucianist Culture

In order to scientifically understand the relationship between the Confucian culture and modernization, it is necessary to distinguish the two patterns of the Confucian culture, i.e. the dying pattern and the living pattern, but not to treat the Confucian culture generally and abstractly. By studying the dying pattern of the Confucian culture, we may look for and unearth the value among it, i.e. the things good for modernization and the things that enliven and spread modernization. While studying the living pattern of the Confucian culture, we find it is no longer the original Confucian culture exisiting in the pure pattern, but the mixture of it and other cultures. It plays either a promoting or a blocking role in the process of China's modernization.