论儒家“天命”信仰中的普世价值

On the Universal Value in the Confucian Belief in the “Mandate of Heaven”

“天命”信仰是中华民族文化传统中重要的精神资源,它揭示了宇宙万物的生命起源和最终的归属,是中华民族的主流信仰-儒家思想的安身立命之所。它以珍惜人的生命、表达养育之恩的情感为基础,进而推演出家庭伦理、政治原则和生态伦理,以“天人”和谐的形态表达着宇宙论与人生论的统一性,是儒家“民胞物与”的普世伦理的神圣性和平等性的理论依据,也是中国人表达宗教情怀的一种传统形式。

Tbe Mandate of Heaven, one of the most important resources of Chinese national cultural traditions, mainly reveals the origin of life and the ultimate belonging of everything in the universe. It is the foundation of the Chinese mainstream belief-the Confucian thought. It is based on the emotions of cherishing life and returning parents for their breeding, and then gives birth to family ethnics, political principles and ecological ethnics. Its unity of Heaven and man expresses the unity of cosmism and theory of life, the foundation of the sacredness and equality of the Confucian universal ethnics of ＂love of all people and all things＂.