论孔子的生命焦虑与晚年抉择

On Confucius's Worries in Life and his Choice in Later Life

综观孔子一生,他的自我"角色期待"是政治家和社会活动家。这一角色期待使孔子一生面临理想与现实、目标与手段等多重矛盾和困惑,由此给他带来了不绝如缕的生命焦虑感。晚年以"作《春秋》"为显著标志的整理六经,是他应对政治追求失败带来生命焦虑的反思与抉择,但并未由此使自我的生命焦虑彻底消解。

In his whole life, Confucius expected to play the role of a politician and social activist. This expectation resulted in his much puzzlement and contradictions between the reality and the ideal, between the goal and the means, and lasting worries in life. In his later life, his study of the Chinese classics represented by The Spring and Autumn Annals is a kind of rethinking and reflection on the worries in his life caused by the failure of political pursuits but it did not help him get rid of all his worries.