中国古代士大夫人格的矛盾与统一

Contradiction and Unity in Personalities of the Antient Chinese Scholars-Bureaucrats

在崇高完美的社会理想与黑暗严酷的社会现实之间,中国古代士大夫的命运注定是悲剧性的。大同理想与桃花源,是两千年来读书人无法释怀的心结。但是,这一人格上的深刻矛盾并未使其走向毁灭,恰恰相反,理性层面以儒释道为主体的知识建构和感性层面以诗乐为核心的情感陶冶,使知识分子的人格在更高的层次上获得了统一。

With great expections for the welfare of society while having to deal with cruelty of all kinds in those dark times of antient China,the scholars were doomed to tragedy.For over 2,000 years,they had always wished to live in a world that was like a wonderland where they could make their fine dreams come true.However the deep contradiction in their personalities did not send them to destruction;on the contrary,the rational knowledge structures based on the the tradition of the Chinese scholars and that of Taoism and the perceptual structures based on the beauty of poetry and music and emotional edification had helped the intellectuals achieve high unity of personalities.