思想史视野中的公孙弘

西汉前期,中国官僚帝制趋于成熟,在政治体制转型的同时,士大夫的政治思想和行为也随之变化,生活在这一时期的公孙弘正是士大夫转型的代表.他以儒术缘饰文法,并将其成功地应用于帝制政治,成为从战国"处士横议"到帝制时代儒雅文臣转变过程中的一座里程碑,对后世士大夫政治产生了深远影响.他还为儒学的官学化和儒生从政的制度化作出了重大贡献,以利禄制度保障儒学的发展,促成了儒学的兴盛,是"独尊儒术"的第一功臣.

Viewing Gong-sun Hong from the Perspective of Intellectual History

In the early Han Dynasty,the imperial bureaucratic system came to its maturity;in accordance with the transformation of the political system,the scholar-bureaucrats had to adjust their thoughts and behaviors.Among them,Gong-sun Hong can be regarded as the most successful in such a transformation.Gong-sun's contribution to the establishment of imperial political system is that he incorporated the Legalism into the Confucianism and successfully applied his ideas to the political practice;as a milestone for th...