二程格物穷理蕴含的知识与道德关系问题

Relationship between Knowledge and Morality in the Two Cheng Masters’ Investigation of Things and Fathoming of Principles

通过理性认知能否把握形上的本体,自然物理知识的获得是否有益于德性的培养,道德践行是否依赖道德理性是中外古今哲学家在知识与道德关系上追问的主要问题。二程在对格物致知的诠释中开启了对这些问题的自觉探讨。

Chinese and foreign philosophers in ancient or modern times have been inquiring main issues on the relationship between knowledge and morality like whether metaphysical ontology can be grasped by rational cognition,whether obtaining natural physical knowledge is conducive to the cultivation of virtue and moral conduct and whether moral practice depends on moral rationality.The two Cheng Masters’interpretations on the Investigation of Things and Fathoming of Principles opened up a series of conscious discussions about these questions.