主动的德行及培养——亚里士多德德行思想的一个重要问题

Active Moral Conduct and Cultivation

亚里士多德认为,德行的根本原因在于行为者自身。人的意志是主动选择、主动坚持的能力,行为善还是行为恶,最根本地取决于行为者自身的选择和实践。这一思想对于我们今天揭示德行形成发展的规律,培养和提高公民道德行为的主动性无疑具有重要意义。从行为的主动被动、行为选择、行为自制及习惯培养等四个角度分别对亚里士多德这一思想进行了阐述与分析。

Aristotle believed that the root of the moral conduct consists in the doer himself. The volitive man is actively selective and insistently capable. Good or bad conduct fundamentally depends on the doer's choice and practice. This idea is very important for us to elucidate the formative and developmental rule of virtue and to cultivate and improve the activity of citizen's moral behavior. Aristotle thought was deeply clarified and analyzed from the activity and passivity of behavior, the behavior choice, self-control of behavior and habit education respectively.