礼、仁与君子：中国古典政治生活的立基与敞开

中国古典思想将探讨的核心置于＂个体＂之上,这种＂个体＂是四重空间的中介与承担者：身、家、国、天下。从而,在其立基与开端处,＂个体＂生命原则具有整全性。礼是＂个体＂成-人历程的根据与内在秩序,也是贯彻于＂个体＂整个生命活动的原则,它对个体、族群的意义非同寻常：它决定着国家存亡、人与人之间的正当关系。而能否守礼决定人能否成其为人——君子。而仁对于君子异常重要,它使国家礼、乐得以可能,是君子生命活动中的核心原则,也是敞开政治社会义利问题的基础。

The Propriety, Humanity and Gentlemen: The rooting and opening of Chinese Classic Political Life

The Abstract Chinese classic thought views the ＂individual＂ as its core—— the medium and substance of the four elements： body,house,state and cosmos.In the rooting and the opening,the individual owns its own wholeness.And the propriety is the ground and inner order in the being-gentlemen of individual as well as the principle of the individual＇s whole life,which concerns so much with the individual and gender——deciding the density of the state and the right relation between people.And obeying the propriety concerns the being-gentlemen. The Humanity means too much to gentlemen,which makes the rites and music of the state possible,being the core principle of the gentleman＇s life and the root of opening the issue of rightness-interest in political society.