论科学发展观中的人本思想对孟子民本思想的继承和超越

人本思想是一种历史悠久的人文思想,是贯穿中国文化历史的主要线索之一。孟子的民本思想继承了前人在民本方面的主张,以儒家“仁学”为基础,提出了“民贵君轻”和“与民同乐”等一系列政治主张,将先秦民本思想发展到了一个新的理论高度,其历史影响深远而广泛。以人为本,是当今中国全面建设小康、构建社会主义和谐社会历史进程中对人的主体地位和作用日益重视的客观反映,是当今中国科学发展观的指导思想和执政党新的执政理念,它作为当代中国构建和谐社会的路径选择,不仅是对传统民本思想的扬弃,而且是对现代人本理论的创新和发展。

Humanism:a thought pearl in the traditional culture and a selected path leading to a harmonious society--the elucidation on Mencius' people-oriented thought and the core meaning of scientific development view

Humanism is a long-established human thought and is one of the main clues that run through Chinese culture and history.Mencius'people-oriented thought inherited ideas from his predecessors.Based on the benevolence theory of Confucianism,it put forward a series of political views including "people outweighing monarch" and "sharing people's happiness".It developed the people-oriented thought of the pre-Qin dynasty into a highter theoretical level and has far-reaching historic influence.Humanism is an objective reflection of the increasing recognition of the human's leading position and roles during the historic process of all-round construction of a well-off and socialist harmonious society in China.It is the guiding thought for the Chinese mainstream development views.As a scientific development view of contemporary China,a new governing idea of the ruling party and the selected path to construct a harmonious society,it not only develops the useful and discards the useless ideas of traditional people-oriented thought,but also innovates and develops the modern humanistic theory.