政治的目的是给公众提供可行的方式和制度安排让大家生活得好。道德居于政治的核心地位,它提供了最简单、最根本、最普遍的法则。康德和孔子的道德哲学分别对如今的西方和东方社会产生了长期、广泛而深刻的影响。本文探讨了这两种道德哲学的本质,并指出了后人是怎样对这两位哲学家的理论进行修正和发展,以便更好地适应新社会的新需求的。 The purpose of politics is to provide the public with a viable approach and institutional arrangements for a good life for all. Morality is at the heart of politics and provides the simplest, most fundamental, and most common law. The moral philosophy of Kant and Confucius, respectively, has had a long-term, widespread and profound impact on today’s Western and Eastern societies. This article explores the essence of these two kinds of moral philosophy and points out how the posterity revised and developed these two philosophers’ theories in order to better adapt to the new needs of the new society.