论《庄子·人间世》寓言主体的政治身份

《逍遥游》《齐物论》论述的政治身份是圣人，而《人间世》寓言主体的政治身份是君子百官。君子百官是庄子“古之道术”政治图式的重要一环。在这一政治理想图式中，圣人无名；君子百官各司其职，因时而用，这是《人间世》思想的重要背景。该篇通过颜回、叶公子高、颜阖三个寓言故事的描写和有关才之有用无用的讨论展开论述，其落脚点在于君子百官这一政治身份，不宜扩大到普遍的人世间。

An Analysis on the Political Identity of the Main Character in The Land of the Living in Chuang Tzu

Different from On Peripateticism and On Leveling All Things, which deal with the saints’ political identities, the allegory in The Philosophy of Life is mainly related to people whose political identities are men of noble characters and officials, who are an important part in the ancient governance pattern proposed by Chuang Tzu In this pattern, the saints have no influential fames, and all the men of noble characters and officials do their own jobs according to the situation of times. That’s the ideological background of the allegory in The Philosophy of Life. With the discussion on usefulness and uselessness and the allegories of Yanhui, Yegongzigao and Yanhe, the whole section is trying to discuss the political identities of Junzi and officials, but not the normal human world.