中庸辩证思想的现代意蕴

"中庸"是儒家思想的一个重要范畴,是孔子乃至儒家思想一以贯之的核心范畴和最高道德。中庸的高明之处在于提出了一个"庸"字,亦即提出了对待"中"的看法和态度——是适用于大多数人的体现在日常生活和行为中的,并无特异之处。执两而用中,用中为常道,常道可久远,这三层互相关联的意思,就是儒家"中庸"的主要意蕴。因此,中庸之道内在地包含知易行难与知难行易的难易辩证法,即中庸是最简单易行也是最高的道德要求。而要做到中庸,没有捷径,只有踏踏实实地做事,付出百倍千倍于别人的努力。因此,中庸思想为我们践行道德指明了具体可行的路径和方法。

The Mordern Significance of the Dialectical Thought of the Mean

As an important concept of Confucianism,the Mean is the core and the highest ethics of Confucianism.The Mean isn't special and can apply to the daily life and behavior of most people.The Mean has the three major meanings that are related and successive: taking hold of two extremes and determining the Mean;the Mean is a golden rule;a golden rule is a permanent solution.Therefore,the doctrine of the Mean inherently the dialectic of easier said than done and the dialectic of more difficult said than done,that ...