论"中庸之道"的新伦理价值

中庸之道是孔子的世界观,方法论及待人接物的基本道德和原则,也是儒家思想的核心和精髓,长期以来,学术界对儒家中庸之道争议始终未断,其中有些见解似欠公允。中庸作为一种伦理化的世界观、虽有着特定的历史局局限性与缺陷,但其中丰富的道德内涵及独特的辩证法思想仍蕴含着强大的生命力,对于市场经济条件下构建新型的人际关系,塑造和谐完美的精神个性,完善新时期的道德建设仍有着积极的指导意义。

On the New Ethical Value of the "Doctrine of the Mean"

The "Doctrine of the Mean" was the basic ethics and principles of the Confucian World Ideology, methodology and the way one gets along with people and also the kernel and extract of the Confucianist Ideology. For quite some time, the academic circles have been disputing on the Confucianist's Doctrine of the Mean unceasingly, a-mong which some views do not seem to have been publicly accepted. The author of this article is of the opinion that the Doctrine of the Mean conducts an ethics world ideology, whose rich connotation of ethics and peculiar dialectics ideology still contain powerful vitality, though it hras its historical limits and deficiency under specified conditions. It still has the active instructive significance to the establishment of new personal relationships under present circumstances of market-oriented economy, to the molding of harmonious and perfect ethical personality, and to the completion of ethical construction to the new age.