| Summary: | 民主政治是人類理性開展的一項產物，然而中國社會在實行民主的過程中卻遭遇到諸多的難題，其中國民性與文化傳統常被視為一項重要的影響變數。因此，作者欲藉由科際整合的途徑，探討中國人的國民性及文化統傳統，能否與西方民主的價值有所接合轉化。根據對文獻的理解，本文所界定的民主化是指國人對民主價值理念的接受程度；而影響國民性的文化傳統也僅限於儒家思想。曾有人認為儒家傳統不利於民主政治的推行，作者認為這是對儒家的理念與儒家傳統的類型有所混淆誤解。本研究欲證明的論點是，儒家傳統有三種交互影響的面向，即經典儒家、王官儒學與庶民儒教，其中經典儒家的價值理念應能與民主的價值相容。經過嚴謹的調查分析，作者有條件地證明了有關的假設，並對後續的研究提出了檢討與建議。
=== Democracy grows out of the rational mind of mankind. However, in deeping its roots in China, it faces tremendous hardship. What is widely held to be in the way are Chinese national charater and the Chinese tradition. By inter-disciplinary approach, the author of this paper endeavers to demonstrate the possibility for the Chinese national character and cultural tradition to transform along the line of western democratic values.
Based on literature review, political democratization in this paper refers to the extent to which Chinese nationals accept democratic values. Due to limitation of resourses available, the Chinese cultureal tradition that shapes the Chinese national character and that this paper addresses is Confucianism.
Some people believe that Confucianism plays a negative role in the practice of political democracy. The author of this paper takes this to be a result of confusing and misunderstanding types of Confucian tradition and Confucian philosophy. The point of this paper is that there are three interacting aspects of Confucian tradition; namely, Intellectual and Practical Confucianism, Imperial Confucianism, and Vulgar Confucianism. And the Philosophy of Intellectual and practical Confucianism ought to be compatible with western democratic values. This hypothesis is proved with careful analysis. Prospects and recommendations of further research are also provided.
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