论五四文学道德意识的现代转型

On the Modern Transformation of Moral Consciousness in the May 4th New Literature

新旧道德转化是五四时期重要的文化课题,也是新文学表现的一个核心。五四文化运动的先驱们敏锐地发现,是吃人的“忠、孝、节”儒教三纲支配了“以家族为本位”的传统道德伦理体系。他们一方面激烈地批判传统道德体系中的三纲五常,意欲彻底铲除家族道德伦理的根基;一方面积极地吸纳西方现代意识,重新构建“以个人为本位”的新道德体系。这种道德体系以“平等、自由、独立”为“大原”,以“幼者、女性和人”为本位。

The transformation from old moral to new one was an important culture task and an expressional core of the new literature. The forerunners of the May Fourth culture movement found that the loyal, filial piety and chastity of the Confucianism＇s three--outline, which dominate the traditional moral and ethical system which uses the familism for the standard. So they volcanically animadverted on them and wanted to get rid of the groundwork of the family normal and ethic . At the same time they actively absorbed in and accepted the modern consciousness of the west to reconstruct the new normal system which uses the individual for the standard and takes equality, freedom and independence as the noumenon and they emphasized the modern ethical idea which takes children, female and human as the new normal standard .