中国人治传统的学理批判

建立在自然经济、小生产和宗法关系基础上的传统学术是伦理政治型的学术,教育是伦理政治型的教育。它们崇尚求善而忽视求真,专注于人事而漠视自然;重文轻理,重实用技术轻科学探索;醉心于政治哲学和社会理想的研究,而疏于国家体制、制度的构建和法理的调控;厚古而薄今;学术成为政治的工具和附庸。这就使得传统学术及其政治理论缺乏严格而深厚的科学底蕴,民主法治理念和自由平等意识难以生长,人治的思想、体制和政治运作方式便成为社会常态。

Critique of the Principle of the Rule by Man Tradition in China

Traditional learning based on natural economy, small production and patriarchal relationship was ethical and political and so was education. They all advocated something good rather than truth, emphasized human affairs rather than nature; emphasized arts rather than science, emphasized practical technology rather than scientific research; emphasized research of political philosophy and social ideals rather than the building of national structure and systems and readjustment of laws; they also esteemed the past over the present; learning became the political tool and subordination. Thus, traditional learning and political theories lacked strict and profound scientific foundations and it was impossible for the democratic concept of ruling by law and the ideal of freedom and equality to develop so the idea, system and political operation of the rule by man became the common social practice.