动力还是助力:儒家传统文化与新加坡的现代化

儒家传统文化在新加坡现代化中的作用很大,贡献也是多方面的,但它并非是新加坡现代化的动力所在,而只是推进现代化的有效工具。它被用以防治道德失范、建构民族精神、维护社会秩序、寻求政治理论支持、打造清廉有效的政府形象。新加坡在现代化进程中植入"孔孟的真精神",并对之进行选择性吸收,即将儒家传统文化作为一种历史文化资源来参考、择取和利用,并赋予儒学新的时代意义,这也许就是儒家传统文化的现代出路所在。

Driving or Promoting Force: The Role of Confucian Traditional Culture in the Process of Singapore's Modernization

Although Confucian traditional culture played a significant role in the process of Singapore's economic boom,and its contribution was also various,it was not the driving force of Singapore's modernization,but the best tools to promote the modernization.The role of Confucian traditional culture in the process of Singapore's modernization was to prevent moral disorder,build the national spirit,maintain social order,seek the political theory support and make the uncorrupted and efficient image of the governmen...