对激进主义伦理观的反拨与修正——冯友兰道德继承论重温

The Correction and Revision to Radical Ethics: Restudied Feng Youlan’s Theory of Moral Heritage

曾在1957年引发一桩文化公案的冯友兰的道德继承论,以其新理学“共相/殊相”二分法立论,以社会的共殊之分,析道德的常变之别,把道德分为“可变的道德”和“不可变的道德”,从而论证了古今存在着恒常不变的共同道德以及道德演化的连续性。这一道德继承论是对激进主义伦理观的反拨和修正,旨在寻求中国古典道德传统中的普世价值,从而解决百年中国“旧邦新命”的道德难题。

Feng Youlan＇s theory of moral heritage, which induced in 1957 a cultural debate, takes his neo-Confucian dichotomy of ＂common / particular＂ on the division of society to analyze the ever-changing phases of morality. He divided moral into ＂changeable moral＂ and ＂unchangeable moral＂, resulting in expounding the unchangeable common moral existed from ancient time to the pres- ent, and the continuity of moral evolution. This theory of moral heritage is a correction and revision to the radical ethics. It aims at seeking a universal value in the tradition of Chinese classical ethics, and thereby solving the ethical dilemma of ＂old country in new fate＂ in the 20th century China.