幸福的实质:义、利的均衡——兼论王船山义利观的历史意义与现代价值

人人都追求幸福,但人们对幸福实质的认识往往不同。儒家对义与利的内涵及其关系的探索,西方思想家关于幸福概念之思考可以相互纠偏。通过对二者的比较分析,尤其是对儒家义利观的得失分析,以均衡概念所内含的方法论为指导,可以正确揭示幸福的实质即义与利的均衡,人们追求幸福的过程即义与利的均衡过程,义利均衡的结果即人们实现的幸福,幸福的评价标准即义利相通的伦理精神原则。王船山的义利观就是义利均衡的义利观,科学地认识王船山这一思想有积极的历史意义与现代价值。

The Nature of Happiness——Balance of Justice and Benefit

Happiness is seeked by everyone,but they have different views on the nature of it.Confucianists's research on connotation and connection of justicing and benefit complement western thinker's thought of happiness.By annalying them comparably,especially advantages and disadvantges of confucianist's thought,guiding by theory of banance concept,we can find the nature of happiness is the blance of justice and benifit.The procedure of seeking for happiness is the procedure of balancing justice and benefit,the result of balancing justice and benefit is the happiness that pepole gained.The criterion of evaluating happiness is the ethical principle of justice and benifit.Wang chuan shan's thought of justice and benefit is the balance of them,thinking it by a scientific way has positive historic meaning and modern value.