Empathy and shared harmony: An affective perspective on Common Prosperity
将心比心、美美与共：情感视野下的共同富裕

摘要

共同富裕不仅是物质财富的分配议题，更是社会心理与情感治理的重大课题。本文基于情感政治学视角，提出情感是一个具有层次结构的复杂概念，依据内涵性质、理性程度和行动力度的差异，将其划分为情绪、情理、价值三个片段。研究认为，在情感视野下，共同富裕发萌于个体基于现实境遇的原始情感诉求，构建于社会成员间“将心比心”的情感流动与共识形成，最终归依于个体在“美美与共”中获得的深层价值体验。这构成了从情绪冲动到情理建构，再到价值升华的回环往复。文章提出，为推进中国式现代化进程中的共同富裕，必须通过营造求真的社会氛围、培育求善的同理心以及树立共美的价值观，来构建坚实而有效的情感支撑与动力机制。

Abstract

Common Prosperity is not merely a distributional issue of material wealth but also a significant subject regarding social psychology and affective governance. Drawing on the perspective of affective politics, this paper proposes that affect is a complex concept with a hierarchical structure. Based on differences in intrinsic nature, degree of rationality, and capacity for action, it divides affect into three segments: Emotion, Reason-Emotion, and Value.The study argues that from an affective perspective, Common Prosperity germinates from individuals' primal affective demands rooted in their lived reality, is constructed through the circulation of emotion and consensus-building characterized by empathy, and finds its ultimate fulfillment in the profound value experiences derived from shared harmony. This constitutes a recursive loop evolving from emotional impulse to the construction of reason-emotion, and finally to the sublimation of value.The paper proposes that to advance Common Prosperity within the context of the Chinese path to modernization, it is essential to construct a solid and effective affective foundation and dynamic mechanism by fostering a social atmosphere of truth-seeking , cultivating goodness-seeking empathy, and establishing values of shared beauty.