论儒家人文精神及其现代价值

On Humanistic Spirit of Confucianism and Its Contemporary Value

儒家人文精神主要包括强烈的人本精神、以求道、得道为快乐的精神、中庸和合精神和笃行精神。同时,儒家人文精神所表现的重整体轻个体的有机自然主义、重直觉了悟轻实证分析的非理性主义和重实用轻理论的工具主义特征又具有一定的缺失和消极的影响,我们必须予以辩证地认识。但儒家人文精神在社会主义和谐社会建构的今天仍具有主要的借鉴价值。从儒家人文精神中汲取营养,体民心、察民情、解民意,以民和民生为本,修行仁德,实现仁政。“天人合一”思想对我们重新认识人与自然的关系、促进人与自然的协调发展具有重要的现实意义。

Humanistic spirit of Confucianism mostly includes strong humanistic spirits, regarding seeking for and gaining Logos as happiness and the doctrine of the mean, diligent in practice. At the same time, Humanistic spirit of Confucianism is characterized by organic naturalism that stresses the harmony of the whole rather than individual separation, irrationalism that stresses intuitive thinking rather than positive analysis, and instrumentalism that stresses practical results rather than theoretic thinking, which has its limitations. We must understand dialectically. However, thanks to the humanis-tic spirit based on their ultimate value, it can exert significant role in constructing harmonious society. Humanity can be realized by drawing humanistic spirit from Confucianism, knowing morale, looking in-to public feelings and explaining public opinion based on public harmony and the people＇s livelihood. The thought of combining nature with human still has its significance today in recognizing the relation be-tween human and nature and in promoting the harmony of human and nature.