托尼的民主理念及其启示

托尼认为,所有人都是"平等的伙伴",是民主的基本条件,经济和社会领域的多元与均衡是民主的基础保证,建设性改良是民主真正实现的现实途径。给予我们的启示主要有:民主不只是个政治问题,它还是个经济问题和道德问题,是一种教育和一种文化。中国的民主既要靠市场经济的发展来推进,又要靠道德经济来支撑,还要靠教育来实现,靠民主政治文化来巩固和维持。

Tawney's Democratic Ideas and the Inspiration

R.H.Tawney thought that all people retaining the relation of 'egual fellows' was the basic conditions of democracy,that the plurality and equilibrium in economy and society were the basic guarantee of democracy, and that the constructive reform was the realistic road to carry out the genuine democracy. Tawney's democratic ideas give us a lot of inspiration that democracy is not only a political problem , but also a economic and moral problem, and that it is a kind of education, and of culture.Democracy in China is to be improved by developing market economy, also supported by the moral economy, and sustained by the education and political culture.