朱熹论“善”、“恶”与“禀气”

Zhu Xi’s Theory on Goodness,Evilness And Natural Disposition

朱熹主张“禀气定数论”,认为世界万事万物以及人类都是因为禀气不同而定的。他首先说明了“人”和“物”都禀气而成,只是禀气不同。又认为人的命运是由气禀决定的,认为人之所以有善有不善,只缘气质之禀各有清浊。他还论述了“先天禀气”是造成人的“善”“恶”的品质的根据,但还没有从根本上解决人的善恶来源问题。

Zhu Xi holds that myriads of things including human beings vary with their natural dispositions. First, he maintains that things and humans are created with the natural dispositions,and the only difference is that each has a different disposition from the other, and that’s why there are welldoers and evildoers. Then he thinks that the goodness or evilness comes from the inborn dispositions of the human beings.