孟子的恻隐之心及其现代价值

何为恻隐之心,《说文解字》解释说:"恻,痛也。"现代汉语词典中解释为:对他人的不幸予以同情、怜悯。两千年前,孟子首先提出这一概念并认为:"恻隐之心,人皆有之。"进一步指出了"无恻隐之心,非人也。"孟子以此为基点建构起它的整个学说。本文试图重新审视恻隐之心这一命题,并探讨其现代价值。

Mencius's sympathy and its modern value

What is the sympathy, ShuoWen JieZi explained: sad is pain. Modern Chinese dictionary explanation is: Be sympathetic to others.Two thousand years ago,Mencius first proposed this concept and thought: sympathy,all the people have. And further pointed out that No sympathy is nonhuman.Mencius constructed its whole doctrine through this.This paper attempts to examine the proposition of sympathy,and analyzes its modern value.