“内圣外王”与中华民族精神的建构

“Being an Inner Sage so as to Rule the Outer World” and the Construction of the Spirit of Chinese Nation

儒家文化具有强烈的以人为本位的人文精神,其核心是关于理想人格的设计与塑造,即所谓“内圣外王”之道。这一核心在长期发展演变过程中形成了丰富的思想内涵和人文特征,不仅对传统中华民族精神的形成与发展产生了巨大的推动作用,成为其形成和发展的重要文化源流之一,而且对我们今天重塑新的理想人格以及培育和弘扬当代中华民族精神有着重要的借鉴意义。

Confucian culture has a strong human-centred human spirit, the core of which is the ideal personality on the design and shape that is so-called＂Being an Inner Sage so as to Rule the Outer World＂. In the long-term evolution of the process, it developed a rich ideological content and the humanistic characteristics. It not only played a tremendous role in promoting the formation and development of traditional Chinese nation spirit, became one of its important cultural origins, but also today has an important reference significance for us to build a new ideal personality and to cultivate and promote the spirit of contemporary Chinese nation.