王夫之的理欲观及其现代启示

Wang Fu-Zhi's View of Reason and Desire and its Modern Revelation

如何看待"理"、"欲"之间的关系问题,是中国古代思想家们争论的一个热点问题,也是宋明理学的核心内容。王夫之从朴素唯物辩证法的前提出发,对程朱理学的"存天理,灭人欲"思想进行了尖锐的批判,他所阐述的"理寓于欲中"、"理欲合一"和"天理与人欲均衡发展"等观点,不仅开创了理欲学说的新范畴和新境界,而且对于现代社会的伦理道德建设具有十分积极的现实启迪意义。

How to look to the relationship between 'reason' and 'desire' is not only a hot issue, which was argued by Chinese ideologists in ancient time, but also an essence of ethics studying in the Song and Ming Dynasties. Starting with simple and dialectic materialism, Wang Fu-zhi gave an acutely criticism to the idea of 'Making the Course of Nature Existent and the Desire of Human Extinct'. He expounded the idea that reason exists in the desire, reason compounding with desire and keeping balance between the development of reason and desire not only initiated the new category and compass of reason and desire theory, but also borne an practical and positive edification meaning for social ethics and moral construction in modern times.