当罗尔斯遭遇孔子——评白彤东《旧邦新命：古今中西参照下的古典儒家政治哲学》

将罗尔斯的政治自由主义引入当代儒学政治思考有其积极价值，而从先秦儒学的特殊合理立场导出对自由民主的认可与修正，显示出保守主义儒学与现代自由主义可能的相容性和深刻的思维差异。只有经过现代政治思考的充分洗礼与反诘，儒学传统才能克服内在强劲的保守化冲动，在自由平等、公正多元的价值基础上确定旧邦新命的现代相关性。

When Rawls Meets Confucius: Review of Bai Tongdong's "New Mission of an Old State: Classical Confucian Political Philosophy in a Contemporary and Comparative Relevance Context "

It is a valuable effort to incorporate Rawls＇political liberalism into the political thinking of contemporary Confucianism. Criticisms of freedom and democracy, both positive and negative, from the view point of pre-Qin Confucianism demonstrate the possible compatibility and profound discrepancy between Confucian conservatism and modern liberalism. Only through the antithetical challenges of modern politics can Confucianism overcome its inner conservative power and establish its ＂new mission of an old state＂ on the basis of liberty, equality, justice and plurality.