先秦人学思想的成熟——孟子"心性学"管窥

孟子对古代人学理论的贡献,在于他以性善论为特点的心性学诠释有关人的问题,透过“性善”高扬了人之为人的本质、“尽心”凸显了人之主体自我、“知天”确立了“天人合一”的精神境界,并将人的主体性体现在这个最高境界中。因此,较之孔子的道德伦理型人学思想,孟子的人学思想则属于心性本体论人学,它弥补了孔子“仁学”理论上的缺憾,促使先秦人学思想趋于成熟,并影响着后世人学思想的发展。

The Maturity Of Pre-Qin Manology——A Little View of Human Nature Study By Mencius

Mencius contribution to the ancient manology lies in that he discusses human beings based on the theory that human nature is good.He raises high banner of human essence,highlights main body of man himself and establishes the ambit of uniting man and nature as one and embodies man in the ambit.Therefore,comparing with benevolence-learning of morality by Confucius,Mencius belongs to noumenon manology.It has made up some defect of the theory by Confucius and urged the pre-Qin manology to become maturity and given an effect on the development of manology of later generation.