Citizen Moral Construction under the Vision of National Identity

The academic tradition is more in line with and highlights the target vision and cultural reference based on cultivating and practicing the core values ​​of socialism and promoting the modernization of China's national governance system and governance capacity. In this way, to "we feel"

It covers the guiding ideology and value orientation of civic moral construction, determines the nature and direction of civic moral construction, gathers the motivation and effect of civic moral construction, and cultivates people's civic morality, civic moral belief and public action ability. It can be said that the relationship between state and citizenship examines the basic concepts and cognitive paradigms of civic morality, and the rational cognition, emotional experience and virtues of state identity regulate the construction function of civic morality, and lead and standardize as citizens with socialist core values. The citizenship and public life of the moral generation field constitute the basic theoretical horizon and academic focus of deepening the study of civic moral construction under the conditions of socialist market economy.

I. State and Citizenship: Conceptual Review and Cognitive Paradigm of Citizen's Morality In 2001, since the publication of the Outline of Citizen's Moral Construction (hereinafter referred to as the Outline), there have been many theoretical research results on the construction of civic morality in China's academic circles, but they can be clarified and cracked. It is rare to see basic theoretical ideas that face many major and urgent social ethical issues in contemporary China. While responding to and exploring the metaphysical issues of “building what” and “how to build”, existing research results are less likely to touch or question the “what” of citizen morality, that is, the essence of civic morality and the metaphysical problem of the core, so it is difficult to aggregate And inspiring the moral construction of citizens is the driving force of "why build". It should be said that ignoring the moral silence of the "Little Yuet" incident and the moral conflict of the "square dance" incident, it is difficult to aggregate and stimulate the positive energy of civic moral construction, and it is not conducive to grasping and evaluating the reality of civic morality. , characteristics and future path, may even flow in a non-belief, no "fixed" relativism, nihilism, civic moral construction discourse. So how to get out of the predicament and inefficiency of civic moral construction, the metaphysical questioning of "civil ethics", the intrinsic rationale for finding and constructing civic morality and its construction should be the current valuable academic path.

According to the basic thinking orientation of philosophical "metaphysical", we refine the "essence" of civic morality into a three-layer proposition with relevance: the origin of civic morality and its universal nature; the basis for the formation, evolution and development of civic morality, Foundation and premise; basic concepts of citizen morality, normative norms, operational systems, and evaluation criteria.

In other words, the “metaphysical” questioning of civic morality means a fundamental and holistic study of civic morality. There are two main core issues in contemporary Chinese citizen moral research: one is the possible theoretical logic of contemporary Chinese citizen morality, that is, the construction of contemporary Chinese citizen moral discourse system; the second is the effective practice path of contemporary Chinese citizen moral construction, namely The choice of the path of moral construction of contemporary Chinese citizens. These two questions are questioned and reflected on the development of citizen morality, the development of evolution, and the practical value or legitimacy of building civic morality.

No matter which level of theoretical research is required, the concept of "citizen morality" should be taken as the logical starting point to obtain the generalization, reflection and meaning generation of the research object. In this sense, the concept of "citizen morality" is not only a movement of civic morality research, but also an analytical tool for civic morality research. Different interpretations of the concept of civic morality not only give different meanings to civic morality, but also become the weapon of civic moral construction in different fields, because the concept of civic morality is essentially a gathering of practical meaning. Without the mastery of "civil morality tools", we cannot organize and grasp ontology, practice theory, value theory and methodology, and even the social experience and the practical direction of civic morality research and construction.

What is worthy of recognition is that since the promulgation of the outline, the “local practice” of civic moral construction with the in full swing

In accordance with the adaptation, scholars have extensively explored and generalized the ethical nature, characteristics and content of civic from different angles and in different ways, and formed a series of "civil moral concepts" that exert certain guiding functions on local practice. By using Max Weber's "ideal type" analysis method, the definition of civic morality in Chinese academic circles can be typed into the following four types.

National ethics. For example, Zhang Boying believes that the "citizen morality" is the maximization of national ethics in the three ways of achieving national ethics in civic moral education. Citizen moral construction is essentially the citizen's moral and practical life. The maximization of ethics is not only the internalization process of moral norms, but also the process of self-shaping of civic virtues.

Citizenship says. For example, Li Bin advocates in the two identities of citizens and their moral requirements: "The basis of civic morality lies in the certainty of citizenship." 2 This certainty is based on different regulations in different social spaces and time. Personality, dignity and their rights and obligations based on legal status and social status with different status.

Citizen virtues said. For example, Wan Junren and others advocate that civic morality is mainly about how citizens become their own. Citizen ethics mainly focuses on citizens' self-cultivation. 3 Generalized narrow sense. Tong Shijun put forward the generalized narrow sense of civic morality in the internal relationship between civic moral construction and social modernity. The narrow sense of civic morality is the civic morality of political ethics. "Citizen morality belongs to the category of social public morality, and it is the moral norm and moral quality of citizens participating in public life, especially political life." The general civic morality is the social moral level. Citizen ethics, that is, "citizen's morality."

The inclusion of 'social morality' and also the multiplicity of 'professional ethics' and 'family virtues' modern citizenship determines the diversity of civic morality. The morality advocated by the Outline is a generalized citizen road Zhang Boying: Three Ways of Realizing National Ethics in Citizen Moral Education, Journal of Hebei Normal University (Educational Science Wan Junren: Citizen Virtue and Political Civilization, Guangming Daily, June 19, 2007 Day, 11th edition.

Morality is a civic morality that is discussed at the level of social morality.

The author believes that each of the above-mentioned civic moral concepts has its own rationale, effectiveness and contribution: some have defined the functional value of civic morality in the national ideology, and some described the extension of civic morality in the social structure, while others It traces the metaphysical significance of civic morality in individual moral cultivation. The only difference is the value ranking and value appeal of the relationship between the state and the citizen. For example, the “National Ethics Theory” emphasizes the national dominance and citizenship plasticity of civic morality, and thus has some instrumentalism and utilitarian tendencies. This tendency, either a direct narrative that is directly linked to the needs of the state, or a researcher's role responsibility based on intervening in society, or its own true value position and academic proposition. The "Citizenship Theory" emphasizes the identifiability of citizen morality and its subjective consciousness, and there is a unilateral subjective statement that states citizen morality by citizenship. The "Citizens' Virtue Theory" emphasizes the citizen's moral internalization of the national ethics, but it is difficult to truly solve the social problems of civic moral construction. The "generalized narrow sense" is a hierarchical consideration and diversification of various value rankings. The ranking of the value of the relationship between the state and the citizenship represents the complexity of the civic morality, the diversity and value orientation of the choice, and the diversity of the evaluation scale. It can be said that different civic moral concepts express different value rankings, advocate the priority of different value principles, and regulate different value sequences of real moral life. "The ranking of each rationality must inevitably highlight the importance of the main value relative to the secondary value. This is a series of processes that necessarily involve various comparisons, judgments, choices, etc." 1 In this sense, the order of value between the state and the citizen is the intrinsic value basis of the citizen's morality, and constitutes the behavioral process of the subject citizen's screening, clarification, judgment, choice, pursuit, and practice of the citizen's moral goal. From the perspective of moral philosophy, the civic moral concept discourse originated from different knowledge bases and value positions contains two academic dimensions of civic morality research: the ultimate meaning and the reality level. In the ultimate sense of civic morality, focus on how to make people "good citizens"

Metaphysical problem. The "Citizen's Virtue Theory" is the civic morality of this ultimate meaning. Although the "citizen morality" proposed in the outline contains the ultimate value appeal, it is more focused on the civic morality of the realistic level. It is the report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on "fully implementing economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction, The overall layout of the five-body structure of ecological civilization construction is the modernization of moral level. It is the expansion and concrete manifestation of the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity in the field of morality. It is the inevitable evolution of the moral logic as the modernization of the national governance system. Just as "the relationship between the government and the market is the core issue of economic system reform", the relationship between the state and citizens implies the basic ethical relationship of civic morality. Citizen ethics is essentially an ethical relationship between citizens and the state, citizens and society, citizens and citizens, state-to-state interactions, interactions, and interactions. In other words, the relationship between state and citizenship in the civic moral system has the ontological and methodological significance. The cognition and practice of civic morality can only be evolved in the relationship between the state and the citizen. The relationship between the state and the citizen constitutes the logical origin of the study of civic morality. . Only in the complex relationship between the state and citizens, the ability of citizens 77. From Zhang Yan: On the value ranking and core values ​​of contemporary China, Wuhan Science and Technology judges what “I” and “we” should defend and tolerate What is, what is persisted, what is opposed to what is right and wrong. The relationship between the state and citizens has a decisive significance for the direction and destiny of civic moral construction, and runs through the rise and fall of civic morality.

Standing on the new historical starting point of the modernization of the national governance system, civic morality is a series of values ​​that are based on the "citizen" that presupposes the legitimacy of the state's political power, standardizing, coordinating and developing the "state-citizen" relationship. Psychology and social practice of social practice, inner beliefs and social practices of traditional habits are a kind of "inter-sex" morality about the value isomorphism and collaborative innovation of the relationship between the state and citizens. It is a kind of embedded citizenship and public life. Generative ethics. This concept reveals three key characteristics of civic morality: first, civic morality takes national identity as the basis of civic psychology; second, civic morality reflects the relationship between individuals and the state and its norms for dealing with this relationship The third criterion is that citizenship and public life constitute the genitive field of citizenship. From the perspective of normative or existential theory, the relationship between the state and the citizens logically constitutes the most basic and core ethical relationship of civic morality, determines the basic structure and development trend of civic moral construction; the society of state and citizen relations Change has become the historical support of human citizen moral evolution; citizen moral construction is essentially a remodeling based on the relationship between state and citizen new rights and obligations. Therefore, how to examine the concept of state and citizenship, determine the boundary between state and citizen, and realize the balance between state power and citizenship is not only the historical dimension of observing the generation and evolution of citizen morality, but also the basic connotation and generation of citizen morality. The realistic logic of the field is a deep ethical problem that citizens must face in moral construction.

(2) The civic moral paradigm based on the relationship between the state and the citizenship is a historical phenomenon. The relationship between “national and citizen” originated in the ancient Greek and Roman period and has been continuously extended, passed down and transformed. Thinkers of different eras explored civic moral issues in different forms based on the cognitive attitudes and value propositions of the "state-citizen" relationship. With the deepening of modernization, the construction of modern countries has increasingly demonstrated the spiritual value and governance function of civic morality, which determines the specific content and stage transition of scholars from different values ​​of different dimensions, based on “national citizenship”. There are mainly the following paradigms for the relationship and the way to grasp the civic morality.

The problem is therefore called "citizen virtue." During the period of the ancient Greek and Roman city-states, the formation of the city-state civic virtues has profound historical and realistic rationality.

The ancient Greek and Roman city-state is a civil autonomous community. Aristotle gave the definition of "city-state" as follows: "We see that each city-state (city) is a certain kind of social group, and the establishment of all social groups is always aimed at accomplishing certain good works. Every act of all human beings, in their own opinion, always intends to seek a certain good fruit. 1 City-state is composed of citizens, citizens with free rights are the masters of city-states, and the interests of defending city-states are one of citizens. Collective sense of honor. In a city-state group, everyone with citizenship participates in public life and seeks public welfare. As Aristotle emphasizes: "You cannot think that every citizen belongs to himself, but think All citizens belong to the city. 2 The independent autonomy of the city-state depends on the absolute loyalty and unity of the citizens, and depends in particular on the civic spirit of citizens who voluntarily sacrifice their lives and give up their rights for the benefit of the city.

Therefore, the early civic morality of adhering to the city-state republican line emphasized the virtues, responsibilities and participation of citizens.

The value of the city-state supreme civic morality is to cultivate the civic virtues that are compatible with the city-state virtues according to the purpose and justice of the city-state. "Implementing civic education in accordance with the spirit of the polity (the Constitution)", "cultivating the words and deeds of citizens", and the effect of "the popularity of words and deeds in the whole country and receiving long-term stability." 3 Only when citizens' words and deeds are consistent with city-city virtues can people “produce a strong desire to become a perfect citizen.” 4 The core value orientation of the city-state supreme civic morality is reflected in the city state. The supremacy of the domain and the subordination of the private domain of the citizen. The essence of the civic virtue is to "abandon oneself." 5 All the things that belong to the private domain of the citizen, such as clothing, consumption, and even recipes, are given the political significance of strengthening the defense power of the city. , detailed in ancient Roman law.

The personality pattern of the city-state supreme civic morality is prominently manifested in the quality of military personnel of male citizens, such as bravery, tenacity, loyalty and unity, in order to avoid internal tyranny and other state attacks. Spartan warriors are often seen as a model of civic virtue. The hard military camp life training has become the basic path for city-states to cultivate the virtues of active citizens who have the ability to participate in public affairs. It can be seen that the civic morality of the ancient city-state supremacy has the heroic era of simple life, self-discipline and self-discipline. In Hegel's state worship and state supremacist theory discourse, this classical "city-to-top" citizen virtue view has been expressed in idealistic sentiment.

Citizen ethics. In the history of Western thought, this "right-first" civic morality has gone through classical liberalism (Locke, Kant, etc.), neoclassical liberalism or conservative liberalism (Hayek, etc.) and neoliberalism (Rolls et al. The school of liberalism is a jungle of liberalism.

In essence, the “rights-first” civic morality is a moral concept and institutional arrangement that advocates “national moral neutrality”. The so-called "national moral neutrality" means that the state must maintain a neutral position between the concepts of good citizenship. Only this neutral position can enable various groups of citizens to maintain their social ethical order, thus truly constructing a free country. The moral concept and institutional arrangement of "national moral neutrality" is mainly based on the judgment and response to the following two major problems: First, the basic functions and political values ​​of the state are to protect the rights of civil liberties from infringement.

The state mandates that citizens live according to the good ideas recognized by the state, that is, "protecting individual freedom from infringement"

Aristotle: Political Science, translated by Wu Shoupeng, Beijing: The Commercial Press, 1965, p. 3.

Plato: Legal, Zhang Zhiren, He Qinhua, Shanghai: Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2001, p. 27.

Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Law, translated by Zhang Yan, Beijing: The Commercial Press, 1961, p. 34.

Second, "the state is a necessary evil: if it is not necessary, its power should not increase. 1 State intervention in the private sphere of citizens may lead to the "road of slavery."" National moral neutrality "It is a strict restriction on the state power.

The state must construct social institutions and procedural structures based on the rights and freedoms of citizens. “Right-Priority” Citizen's Moral Proposition: “Individual ownership has the right to require the state to act for certain acts or not for certain acts. This means not only that the state does not interfere with the autonomy of the individual, but also that the state must fulfill its own Obligations, and also refers to the fact that the state must organize itself as an entity that guarantees the realization of its obligations as much as possible." 2 The protection of civil rights is the sole purpose of state obligations. Only those countries that fulfill the obligations of guaranteeing citizens' rights can truly have state power.

The rights and freedoms of the individual citizens in the private sphere are the reasons, functions and purposes of the existence of the community. As a rational and self-sufficient individual, citizens have the ability to make value judgments and moral choices that suit their own wishes, and thus have supreme priority in epistemology, ontology and even morality.

Freedom, independence, and equality. However, due to extreme attention to individual rights and ignoring the value of the community, this subjective personality is prone to “collision of gods” or “incompatibility” in the field of value, which makes this “right-priority” citizen morality idealized. Romantic complex.

Rights and obligations are the core content, with citizen's national identity as cognitive psychology, emotional experience and virtue practice, in order to cultivate citizens' independent judgment ability, rational reflection ability and social participation ability as the ideal citizen ethics. As a historical rectification and concept transcendence of the "city-state supremacy" citizen morality and "right-priority" citizen morality, this "national identity" citizen morality not only expresses the core interests of the survival and development of modern countries, but also reflects The needs of the interests of every citizen living in a modern country are increasingly forming the mainstream discourse and theoretical situation of the moral development of the world today.

Overview of the above-mentioned civic morality, from emphasizing the interests of city-states to the priority of citizens' rights, to citizen's national identity, the order of evolution of civic morality basically reflects the historical direction and overall trend of the deepening development of the relationship between the state and citizens. . As the most basic and core ethical basic theory of civic morality, the relationship between "national and citizen" has its logic and historical inevitability. It not only meets or undertakes the mainstream academic tradition of civic morality in the relationship between “city-state and citizenship” in ancient Greece and Rome, but also fits and highlights a kind of modernization based on cultivating and practicing socialist core values ​​and promoting national governance system and governance capacity. The Chinese vision and cultural reference are the interpretation of the legitimacy of civic morality and its construction. In the context of contemporary globalization and space-time compression, different pops: the principle of liberalism, Wang Wei and others: Liberalism and the contemporary world, Beijing: Sanlian Bookstore, 2000, p. 143.

Leon Dicky: The Law of the Public Law and the State, Zheng Ge, Calm Translation, Shenyang: Liaohai Publishing House, Spring Breeze Literature and Art Publishing House, 1999, p. 235.

The "national-citizen" relationship in the region is at different stages of modernization, thus emphasizing the national sovereignty-civil rights of different dimensions. Therefore, how to coordinate and promote the national sovereignty-civil rights of different dimensions becomes the social politics that citizens must face in moral construction. problem. Based on this, from the historical background of the analysis of citizen morality, especially the moral construction of Chinese citizens, from the perspective of national identity, in the specific unity of history and logic, grasp the historical significance and deep essence of civic morality, to reflect more rationally and comprehensively. The ethical discourse pattern of Chinese citizens will constitute the focus of the following research.

Second, the national identity and civic moral construction rationality and legitimacy constitute the two basic dimensions of civic moral construction. The "national-civilian" relationship theory interprets the question of the rationality of civic morality, that is, the justification or explanation of the basis or source of civic morality. Then, how to construct and internalize this kind of civic morality as the cultivating ability of the civic subject is a deep-seated problem that needs to introduce the philosophical rationality of civic into the field of legitimacy. The legitimacy of civic morality is not only the social rationale for constructing civic morality, but also the reasonable scale for people to evaluate civic morality. It is also the psychological motivation for people to practice civic morality. In this sense, the issue of the legitimacy of civic morality is the deepening and internalization of the issue of rationality, that is, the citizen's inner recognition attitude towards civic morality. The theoretical value of civic morality is mainly based on the concept of national identity characterized by "we feel", "identity" and "values" to construct the civic consensus of civic moral construction, and thus lead and shape the subjective will of civic morality. The rational basis and internal driving force of its ability structure.

Intellectual understanding is also not conducive to grasping and evaluating the civic moral status, characteristics and future path of the reality. It may even flow to a kind of bourgeois morality that has no faith and no "determination" of relativism and nihilism. Specifically, the multi-ethical scene has triggered the identity crisis, ambiguity and power dissipation of civic morality and its construction. Of course, while causing confusion in civic moral construction, multi-ethical scenarios also provide new possibilities for constructing civic morality. As a kind of state-based and civic relationship value isomorphism and collaborative innovation, civic morality presupposes citizens' recognition of the country. This kind of identity is the premise basis and important factor for understanding the moral construction of citizens. Without a common national identity, the construction of civic morality will face profound challenges. Therefore, how to get out of this kind of moral chaos in the "diversified" mirror that is closed to the moral diversity and moral division that is separated from the other's vision, from fostering citizens and fostering the spiritual structure of virtue In the "National Identity", we are looking for the deconstructive power of multi-ethical loss, constructing the concept of national identity characterized by "we feel", "identity" and "values" to construct the civic consensus of civic moral construction, and build citizens in a multi-ethical scene. A culturally good strategy of morality. The existence of multiple moral scenes urgently requires national identity to lead the civic moral construction. National identity constitutes the strategic cornerstone, belief orientation and motivation choice of civic moral construction in a multi-ethical scene.

From the deep essence of civic morality, national identity is not only the rational cognition, moral emotion and virtue element of civic morality, but also the internal driving force and important development index of civic moral construction, or the academic analysis tool of civic moral research. From the perspective of citizens who have left national identity, it is impossible to have the generation and development of civic morality in a multi-ethical era. Citizens' different interpretations of national identity will give citizens different content and values. As a kind of “we feel”, “common sense” and “feeling sense” that directly affect the cohesiveness, cohesiveness and development of the country, national identity is the acceptance, attribution and appreciation of the state of the country to which it belongs. Its function is not only to effectively cultivate citizens. Consciousness, optimization of public opinion, and the establishment of a solid "Citizen Psychological Great Wall" for the construction of civic morality.

From the perspective of the subject of civic morality, national identity provides a basic relationship for the moral behavior and moral judgment of individual citizens. "Knowing who you are is a sense of direction in the moral space; the question that arises in the moral space is, what is good or bad, what is worth doing and what is not worth doing, what is meaningful to you. Important, and what is shallow and secondary.” 1 As a reality, citizens are taken into account in the relationship between the human and the political community, the state. As a cognitive form and psychological expression based on the harmonious coordination between state and citizen relations, national identity reflects citizens' respect and follow-up of national sovereignty, social system, economic politics, historical and cultural traditions, moral values, etc. And faith. As far as its essence is concerned, national identity based on certain economic, political and cultural foundations is a kind of subjective belief of citizens, enriching and constructing the qualifications, qualities and abilities of citizens as moral subjects. In other words, as a deep-rooted spirit of the civic moral culture, the national identity has a high degree of stability and internal profoundness, and it contains a strong civic spirit of civic morality construction. National identity is the soul of civic morality. Without national identity, there is no moral character of citizens.

1 Charles Taylor: The Root of Self: The Formation of Modern Identity, Han Zhen, etc., Nanjing: Yilin Press, from the perspective of the main body of civic moral construction, national identity contributes to the transformation of civic moral construction from single subjectivity to intersubjectivity . The subject of inter-subjective civic morality construction based on "cooperation and exertion" is based on the single subjectivity of "How can I achieve my own freedom" or "How can I live a good life?" The problem is to transform into multi-subjective issues such as "how can we understand each other and achieve mutual recognition" or "how can we live reasonably together" to release the cooperative synergy of the pluralistic subjects of civic moral construction. The intersubjectivity of civic moral construction is the process of repositioning and re-adjusting their concepts, responsibilities or abilities through different relationships between different subjects. Under the perspective of the national governance system, the civic moral construction is an innovative collaborative project between the government and enterprises, social organizations and individual citizens. The state is the main body of responsibility in the core construction of civic morality. Although citizen morality relies on the power of social opinion, customs and inner beliefs, it does not affect or deny the position of the main role of the state in the core of civic moral construction. The promulgation of the outline is the core position. The responsibility of the subject is responsible. In the social structure of the differentiation of stakeholders and the growth of rights awareness, the state needs to expand from the promoters of economic development to the advocates of civic moral construction, and use various public powers, public places, and public methods from the macro and overall levels to coordinate and Balancing the relationship between the state and citizens, protecting the legitimate rights of each citizen equally, and ensuring the effective operation of the modern "state-civilian" relationship, so as to effectively improve the citizens' moral literacy and moral practice ability.

The national identity of citizens is fundamentally giving the outline a guarantee of legitimacy. Therefore, enhancing the citizen's sense of national identity will become a cultural path to build a multi-subjective cooperation in the construction of civic morality in the context of contemporary China.

(2) Reason, Emotion and Virtue: Citizen's Moral Construction Function of National Identity With regard to national identity, there are quite rich and mature explorations in China, including the connotation of national identity, national identity and globalization, 1 national identity and national structure system, 2 National identity and national identity, cultural identity, etc. These explorations are undoubtedly important, and we have accumulated a basic knowledge framework for in-depth discussion of related issues. However, the expression of national identity and its spiritual character, such as reason, emotion, virtue and so on, seem to have not attracted the attention and interest of the academic community. What is certain is that the lack of research on the expression of national identity and its spiritual character makes it difficult to identify and effectively demonstrate the value function of national identity in the construction of civic morality. Therefore, exploring the expressions of national identity and its spiritual character has become a realistic problem that we can't avoid and circumvent the problem of citizen moral construction under the perspective of national identity, and it is worthy of further study. Here, the purpose of exploring the form of national identity expression and its spiritual character is to find and construct the rational cognitive basis of civic morality, the dependence of emotional experience and its ability to practice. In the process of civic moral construction, as a citizen-state identity based on politics, law, culture and psychology, it covers the guiding ideology and value orientation of civic moral construction, and decides Jin Taijun and Yao Hu: national identity: under the vision of globalization Structural Analysis, Chinese Social Sciences, 2014, issue 6.

Han Zhen: On the analysis and thinking of national identity, national identity and cultural identity based on historical philosophy, the nature and direction of civic moral construction in the north, the motivation and effect of civic moral construction, the cultivation of people's civic morality and public Ability to act.

First, the state recognizes the rational cognitive function of civic moral construction. “In most cases, identity is a concept of construction. People decide their own identity in the context of varying degrees of pressure, incentives, and freedom of choice.” 1 National identity based on political-legal orientation, mainly It is a rational cognition of the historical facts about the construction of modern countries and the relationship between “national and citizen”, that is, the national identity of citizens “is not a natural emotion, but a necessity to pass legislation, or more accurately, through The enthusiasm of good government and citizens for the participation of public life." 2 As a national identity of rational cognition, it expresses a kind of cognitive consciousness of the interest relationship between the state and the citizen and the difference or characteristic of the citizen's own country different from other countries. The basis of national identity is not only the interests of “state” or “individual”, but the common interests or public interests between the state and citizens, between the state and the state. Only in this way, national identity will form and play a universal cognitive function of civic moral construction. In this kind of rational cognition of the national identity system, citizens as the "national masters" regard the state as a political community based on citizenship, and undertake the functions of safeguarding sovereign independence and territorial integrity and safeguarding citizens' rights and social order. Think of an individual as a person with civil rights, critical spirit, and his "self-rational review." This rational cognition of national identity not only clarifies the nature and function of the state, but also regulates the rational expression and behavioral motive of civil rights and responsibilities; it not only implies the basic ethical relationship between the state and citizens, but also provides the civic moral construction. Methodological guidance and values ​​lead. The so-called "patriotic law-abiding, honesty and integrity, unity and friendliness, diligence and self-reliance, dedication and dedication" are the basic norms of citizen morality, which are objective reflections and positive advocacy of the rational cognition of citizens' national identity based on the basic ethical relationship between the state and citizens. The rational cognition of national identity reflects the citizens' confidence in the road to socialism with Chinese characteristics and strengthens the institutional foundation of civic moral construction. Neglecting or ignoring the rational cognitive function of national identity, civic moral construction will eventually lose the second of science, and the national identity will be the emotional experience function of civic moral construction. When the rational cognition of national identity is internalized into human inner feelings, the emotional experience constitutes the basic expression of national identity. As a national identity and belief perception, the emotional experience is mainly based on the cultural, psychologically oriented citizens' memory, recognition, enjoyment and pursuit of national history and culture, ethics and common life beliefs. If the national identity of rational cognition based on the political-legal orientation is generated, then the national identity based on the cultural-psychological orientation of the emotional experience is derived from the cultural power of the national history. "We can't force others to endorse us, no matter how much power we have for them, because forcing them to express their gratitude or praise will make these expressions worthless.

Samuel Huntington: Who We Are, The Challenge of American National Identity, translated by Cheng Kexiong, Beijing: Xinhua Press, 2005, p. 21.

Moricovich Vidori: Renaissance of Republicanism and Its Limitations, Ying Qi, Liu Training: Civil Republicanism, Beijing: Oriental Publishing House, 2006, p. 167.

Emotional experience, national identity is a kind of "spiritual activity" with a strong internal drive, and it is no longer just a fine replacement or moral reasoning of rights and obligations. National identity as an emotional experience, recognition of people's citizenship Knowledge, civic moral behavior and civic moral quality have a strong regulation, drive, catalysis and stimulating role. A person who is passionate and confident in the country's history and culture, ethics and common life beliefs is more inclined to discover social fairness. Justice and human kindness are more willing to pay attention to public affairs and participate in public activities. They are more willing to take the initiative to accept the influence of their own country in their thoughts, feelings, attitudes and behaviors, so that their attitudes and behaviors are close to and the same as the state.这种情感体验的国家认同体系中,公民的情感体验构成了人内在的心理向导,与理性认知互为支撑,成就着国家与公民的统、人的心灵与身体的统一。没有情感体验就难以生成探索和追求国家认同理性认知的智慧和力量。换言之,国家认 的情感体验”寓于“理性认知,国家认同的理性认知依赖于人的大脑和身体的情感体验系统,深刻的理性认知激发着深切的情感体验,深切的情感体验强化着深刻的理性认知,情感体验与理性认知的高度融洽有助于形成公民道德建构的一种文化范式。

最后,国家认同之于公民道德建设的美德践行功能。“美德”是个被思想史上的大人物们高度关注的话题。诸如麦金太尔的追寻美德:道德理论研究、德沃金的至上的美德、曼斯菲尔德的马基雅维里的美德和波考克的美德、商业和历史等,都对美德给予了不同的诠释。麦金太尔通过多层次的结构性分析揭示了人的美德的历史深厚感,主张美德“不仅仅在于维系获得实践的各种利益所必需的那些关系;维系个人能够在其中找到他的善作为他的整个生活的善的那种个体生活形式;而且在于维系同时为实践与个体生活提供必要的历史语境的那些传统”。②基于政治一法律、文化一心理等多重取向的国家认同,无疑蕴涵着强烈的美德践行意蕴。如果理性认知与情感体验是公民国家认同的表达形式,美德践行则是国家认同的公民主体养成。对国家认同的“美德践行”考量,是对国家认同的理性认知和情感体验的内在价值限定。作为理性认知与情感体验付诸实施的行动,美德践行构成了国家认同最核心的公民品质。在国家认同研究中,最重要的、根本的是公民美德的践行问题。脱离了美德践行,国家认同也就成了僵死的认知条文和“假、大、空”的情感浮萍。在公民道德研究看来,国家认同是进入国家与公民关系之中的公民道德活动,是公民道德活动的基本表达方式,也是满足公民道德活动这一表达方式的美德践行。国家认同既是公民美德的践行方式,也是公民美德的培养空间。因此,指向国家认同的“美德践行”,不仅意味着要实践诸如“爱国守法、明礼诚信、团结彼德布劳:社会生活中的交换与权力,孙非、张黎勤译,北京:华夏出版社,麦金太尔:追寻美德:道德理论研究,宋继杰译,南京:译林出版社,2008年,第友善、勤俭自强、敬业奉献”等基本公民道德规范,而且旨在培育公民积极参与公共事务、表达公共观点和担任公共责任的“公益精神”。对共同体利益的自觉服务,对公共善福祉的自觉诉求,构成了国家认同主体的美德践行的意愿、能力。正是这种以“美德践行”为主体目的的“国家认同”,不断地完善和丰富着公民道德的内容建构。在当代中国,以“美德践行”为导向的国家认同体系,是公民道德构建的自觉、自信和自强的实践路径。

三、公民道德生成场域与社会主义核心价值观如果说基于国家与公民关系的“国家认同”理论诠释的是公民道德的基本伦理关系、公民道德建设的合理性与合法性问题,那么,以社会主义核心价值观引领和规范作为公民道德生成场域的公民身份和公共生活,探讨的则是关于具有合法性、合理性的公民道德建设的现实路径问题。

在推进国家治理体系现代化的新的历史时期,基于国家认同的公民道德,是种以公民身份和公共生活为主体品行的生成性道德,是人在行使公民权利和履行公民义务中遵循的种生存法则和心灵秩序。公民身份认同建构了公民道德主体及其反身对象,公共生活能力则构筑了公民道德的生成场域及其践行能力。

公民身份和公共生活赋予公民道德的主体性和公共性,公民是在认同公民身份和参与公共生活中逐渐发现和意识自身的公民性和道德性的。诚如弗洛姆所指出的,有的拓展人的力量的能力,他才能完成如下任务:成为自在自为的人,并通过充分实现人的潜在的诸能力理性、爱、生产性劳作而达到幸福。“①然而,作为公民道德发展主客体重要变量的公民身份、公共生活与公民道德之间并不是简单的线性关系;公民身份、公共生活本身并不具有分辨善恶的天赋能力,也并不存有产生以倡导”富强、民主、文明、和谐,自由、平等、公正、法治,爱国、敬业、诚信、友善“为核心价值观的天然机制;相反,对整个社会而言,公民身份、公共生活并不都是因为道德的多元观念和多样行为方式而具有很大的混存性。换句话说,不道德的公民观念和公民行为不仅隐藏于人性之中,也可能寄生于公民身份的制度安排和公共生活的场域之内。主张公民权利和公共福利的公民身份和公共生活,虽然塑造了当代世界公共化的政治社会秩序,却无力重建人们的心灵秩序,因而亦无法确保其自身历史的发展必定向善,从而可能形成公民身份和公共生活自身的道德盲点,进而滋生了”扶不扶“、”救不救“、”帮不帮“、”跳不跳“的道德困惑和”见①弗洛姆:人的境遇,林方主编:人的潜能和价值人本主义心理学译文集,北京:华夏出版社,1987年,第108页。

义不敢为“”见义难有为“的道德尴尬。这就是说,公民身份、公共生活构筑起了公民践行其道德善的制度性条件,但并非公民道德本身。面对公民身份、公共生活既存有或需要道德又排斥或否定道德的伦理悖论,为了突,把冲突保持在'秩序'的范围以内;这种从社会中产生但又自居于社会之上并且日益同社会相异化的力量,就是国家”①社会之上的“秩序”是国家通过个共同规则约束起来“的,”这个规则首先表现为习惯,不久便成了法律。随着法律的产生,就必然产生出以维护法律为职责的机关公共权力,即国家。“②作为掌握和行使公共权力的”第三种力量“,国家的基本功能就是缓和公民身份、公共生活之间的矛盾和冲突,把矛盾和冲突保持在一定”秩序“的范围内。因此,以作为社会主义意识形态重要组成部分的核心价值观,引领和规范作为公民道德生成场域的公民身份和公共生活,既是培育和践行社会主义核心价值观的根本要求,也是公民道德建设实践的内在呼唤。在社会转型期,由于经济结构变化、利益集团分化导致社会主流价值的迷失、混乱、多元以及公民身份焦虑和公共生活问题凸显等系列社会矛盾,从实践层面表明公民道德建设亟需既具理论高度、又蕴实践特质的社会主义核心价值观的引导,以提升公民道德的价值认同与心灵内化,进而保持公民道德建设的中国特色社会主义的发展方向。

就“现实的人”而言,公民道德的主体是具有公民身份的人。公民道德建立于公民身份之上。公民身份在任何公民道德形态中都居主体地位,对公民道德的生成及其价值目的起着引导、定向、规范及其反身对象价值。公民身份认同构成了公民道德的心智基础。根据社会认同理论,公民身份认同本质上是一种社会建构,政治认同、民族认同、文化认同、道德认同、职业认同等构成了公民身份认同的多维层级图式。公民身份认同的差异性,既反映了个体公民在社会多维层级图的地位结构,也呈现出公民身份认同的发展性和变动性。

所谓公民身份认同就是指具有独立、自由、平等等人格特性的公民对自我的公民地位、权利、责任的自觉认同。公民身份认同意味着用理性原则、价值期待、行为规范来界定公民自我。因此,我们也可以把公民身份认同理解或描述为“公民身份的自我重要性”即公民身份对自我的重要性,是公民道德内化为心与外化于行的重要的理性调节机制,也是激发公民履行其道德行为的重要心理动机。伴随公民身份认同的深化,公民身份将逐渐由制度赋予的权利、地位等外在认同向以“价值、规范、理想、愿望、期待”等内在的心理认同转向,进而构筑公民道德的价值内涵和行为动机。从功能意义上说,公民身份认同是一项关乎公民道德主体建构的社会工程。“只有公民身份才塑造道德人,只有公民身份给予那个自我一种尊重,而且是对他人尊重的真正基础,没有这种尊重就不能存在真正的道德可持续的社会秩序”①虽然马歇尔(THMarshall)关于公民身份的法律、政治、社会层面的建构理论得到了广泛关注和传承,但人不仅仅是需要寻求国家法律庇护和认同的政治动物,更是种思考“我是谁”、“我是否属于我们”和“我们是谁”的道德动物。

公民身份认同则是基于由国家法律制度规定的公民身份认知、肯定、接纳基础上,所形成的国家与公民间的“我感”、“我们感”和对国家“归属感、忠诚感”的一种心理认同或道德觉悟。正如凯思福克斯(KekhFaulks)所言:“公民身份是一种成员地位,它包含了一系列的权利、义务和责任”②就此而言,公民身份本身就蕴涵着由国家赋予公民地位、忠诚、权利等意义的认同形式,而国家的权力也就产生于其成员的“权利与美德”。于是,权利与美德构成了公民身份的二维结构。为政治框架设计的“权利”回答的是“我们如何生活在一起”的制度性问题;由生活实践习得的“美德”回答的则是“我们(我)如何过个美好的人生”的目的性问题。

因此,作为公民道德的“现实的人”的公民身份,不仅需要基于制度安排的权利,更需要美德的支持,以保障不同主体间的各种权利的文明实现。没有美德信念支持的“公民身份”的独立、自由、平等等品性,在某种特定的情境中很容易蜕变为实现个人利益最大化工具的精致的利己主义。可见,公民身份不仅是套制度建构,也是一整套独特的信仰、态度和情感的道德认同体系。没有内在美德的公民身份,其独立、自由、平等就会迷失方向和力量。在人的多重身份中,公民身份因其集合了“司法的、政治的、经济的和文化的”多重实践,而获得了丰富的道德想象力。

公民身份认同作为一种社会交往形式和个人心理感受,其深层支撑源自其反身性理性能力。以“权利与美德”构成的公民身份,不仅建构公民道德主体,而且建构公民道德的“自我指涉”(selfreference)和“自我反思”(self-reflection)反身性理性能力。与以血缘、语言、地域、习俗为自然集合体的原始情感认同不同,公民身份认同是一种基于领土、文化、政治与权利等文化共同体和政治共同体的理性认德里克希特:公民身份世界史、政治学与教育学中的公民理想,郭台辉、余慧元译,长春:吉林出版集团有限责任公司,2010年,第98页。

同能力。在公民道德体系中,这种理性认同能力将呈现为“未验证的公民身份认同、公民身份认同的探索及公民身份认同的形成”等三种形态或三大阶段。在“未验证的公民身份认同”阶段,公民个体并不真正知道“公民一国家”关系的意义是什么,他们对“公民一国家”关系的认知感大多源自父母、社区或者更大的社会群体。在“公民身份认同的探索”阶段,公民个体开始意识到自己的公民身份,在参与“公民一国家”关系的公共活动中,对自己的公民身份逐步产生较为深刻的理解。到了“公民身份认同的形成”阶段,公民个体基于“公民一国家”关系的知识体系和价值意义更为深入的系统掌握,从而更自信、更理性、更自觉地接纳和认同自身的公民身份。以概念形式予以表达和分析的这三种状态或三个阶段,呈现的是公民身份认同的动态发展变化过程。如果说未验证的公民身份认同是建立在非理性的素朴心智和盲目顺从的基础上,那么公民身份认同的形成就必定需要接受理性的追问和考验。在一定意义上,成熟的公民身份认同是经理性的反身意识引导,由主体理性判断和选择的。把公民身份认同建立于理性、情感与美德之间的某种必要张力,且维持其动态平衡,便构成了当代公民道德的一种反身价值。当然,公民身份认同一方面受制于社会结构互惠性的共同利益,生活在环境、观念和价值观等差异很大的文化背景中,个体诸如进城农民工的公民身份认同的建构就会面临挑战;另一方面它也在一系列信仰、仪式和象征的强化训练中得到积累,如果进城农民工善于学习,积极参加当地社区活动,增强公民身份认同思维训练而不断提高自我的公民身份认同感,就能较快构建起公民道德的主体人格力量。这就是说,公民身份认同在为公民道德提供心智支持的同时,也接受着介入或渗透于系列信仰、仪式和象征活动中的公民道德规范、扶正和纠偏的反身功能。只有历经公共生活、经验感受、情景设置等彰显公民道德践行的长期积淀,才能使公民身份认同成为马克思所讲的“日常意识”,成为社会心理学所讲的“集体意识”。

综上所述,公民道德需要以公民身份认同为主体前提,公民身份认同也构成公民道德的反身对象,公民身份认同需要公民道德的价值支撑。在多元道德场景中,实现公民身份认同是个充满了冲突和矛盾的复杂过程。越来越多的来自农村、亟需户籍认定的农民工遭遇孩子读书、住房买卖和就业保障等问题,既是“环境中的个人困扰”,也属“社会结构中的公共论题”的社会问题,在本质上同样关涉公民的大力量。面对诸多叠加式的社会问题,需要人的理想信念和生活信心的支持驾驭。

(二)公共生活:公民道德的践行能力公民道德是一种有条件的公共道德,这个条件就是公共生活。公共生活既是公民道德的生成场域,也真切地体现了公民道德的践行能力。没有真正的公共生活,就不可能生成真正的公民道德。“权利与美德”之于公民身份认同的力量与限度,在很大程度上取决于公民公共生活本身的价值观认同和制度结构。公民身份的存在感依赖于“国家一公民”伦理关系的公共建构,公民身份认同的心理张力需要细化于公共生活的事实层面,公民身份认同的现代化程度或水平,则取决于公民身份与其面临的公共生活性质与特征的契合程度。尽管私人生活是公民道德个体差异化的自主场域,但公共生活则是公民道德社会普遍化的践行场域;尽管日常生活中的许多行为和载体同时承担着公共生活与私人生活的双重功能,但这并不妨碍公共生活作为公民道德的生成机制和践行场域的客观性和可能性;公共生活与私人生活的功能互构度越高,公民道德践行的公共生活场域就越大。因此,公共生活既是公民利益表达和实现的重要平台,更是公民道德生成和进步的践行场域。只有在公共生活参与中,才可能真正培育出彰显公共理性和公共精神的公民道德。

澄清“公共生活”内涵及其丰富的道德意蕴,是阐释建构“公共生活”何以能够或应当成为公民道德的生成场域,以及人们如何过上正确的公共生活的学理基础。作为一个现代术语,“公共生活”泛指公共领域中人的生活方式。对市民个体而言,公共生活使个体化的市民向多重化的市民角色转化;对国家而言,公共生活确立了市民的公民身份。那么,究竟是什么决定了定社会或社会群体进入“公共生活”,是什么令“公共生活”成为可能,衡量一个社会或群体是否进入公共生活时代,可以通过系列外在指标来观察,如公共交往活动空间(文化广场、小区空地等)和公共物质共享空间(健身器材等),但是更为重要的是检验它的内在属性,即参与公共生活主体人的公共精神和公共理性的公民性品格。公共生活就是一种体现社会成员公共关系的公民性的生活方式,就是一种融个人权利和尊严与他人权利和尊严于活方式,它必然要表现为一种滋养着信任、宽容、同情、对话、协商和妥协等丰富而多元道德内涵的生活方式。人们因信任、宽容和同情而走进同一个公共生活圈,人们也因对话、协商和妥协化解了某一个公共生活圈由于权利、尊严和荣誉不平衡而产生的“公共性问题”。在当下中国语境中,对话、协商和妥协将成为公民守望权利、尊严和荣誉,过上好的公共生活的实际践行能力。例如“广场舞问题”,即广场舞大妈的健身需求与噪音扰民的侵权行为之间的矛盾和纠纷造成的肢体冲突、泼粪鸣枪、财产损失等极端事件,折射出的就是公共生活中公民践行能力的危机。改革开放、市场经济和老龄社会的叠加共存,不仅激发了个体权利意识的觉醒,而且改变了人们的生活方式和关系结构,甚至极大地改变了社会习风,在保护“私人生活”公民权利的同时,公共生活的需求和空间也在飞速拓展,衣食无忧的城市老年人群体成为这种公共生活空间的聚集者。然而,老人们对如何过上好的公共生活还缺乏认知的、欣赏的及其内化的心理准备。特别是在行政干预无果的情势下,公民之间缺乏系列缓和、纾解“公共性问题”的对话、协商、妥协的伦理机制,是值得重20视的问题。这种伦理机制的不健全,造成了公共生活“破坏性”过多,而“建设性”不足。在张扬个体权利和尊重群体权利之间,一种好的公共生活需要寻找到彼此和荣誉不仅是“我”的,也是“他”(她)的;公共生活的意义在于“公共性”,即任;公共生活就是种为“公共性”价值引领的自主建构的生活形式,这种公共性的生活品质滋生着公民道德的基本品格。诚如古希腊先哲苏格拉底曾说过的,不经反思的生活是没有价值的,只有经过对话、协商、妥协后的公共生活才是永续的。对话、协商、妥协既是公共生活中人们追求幸福生活的践行手段,也是将人们公共生活中碎片化、民粹化意识批判地整合起来的理性力量,还是培育和践行以社会主义核心价值观为引领的公民道德建设的“知行场域”。

结语作为社会主义道德体系建设的重要组成部分,公民道德既是国家型塑公民人格和社会风尚的政治文化过程,更是在中国社会中公民生活的一种道德状态和精神耕耘。以社会主义核心价值观引领的公民道德建设,是实现“国家富强、民族振兴、人民幸福”民族复兴伟大梦想的必要文化路径。公民道德作为一种关于国家与公民关系的价值同构和协同创新的“间性”道德,作为一种嵌入公民身份与公共生活的生成性道德,既是个人自由的心灵秩序,也是社会秩序尤其是政治秩序维系的精神力量。致力于自由而平等的公民所组成的公正而稳定的社会,需要具备“权利与美德”两种力量来建构和平衡“国家一公民”的伦理关系。这种力量的平衡不仅是一种公民美德,更是一种社会秩序。只有在国家认同的社会秩序中,公民道德才能成为公民身份认同和公共生活能力再生产条件的价值规范和道德理念。

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