作为保守主义者的梁实秋——以人性论为例

A Talk on Liang Shiqiu as a Conservative——A Case Study of the Theory of Human Nature

在20世纪二三十年代,梁实秋挥舞其从大洋彼岸的白璧德那里学来的人性论武器,分别针对五四新文学传统、中国古典文学的佛道传统和时正兴盛的无产阶级文学进行了否定性的批判,从逻辑上说他所肯定的就只剩下儒家文学传统了。其实他千里迢迢从美国学来的二元人性论,其实质就是大受时人批判的宋明理学人性论,他要保守的也是这种积满历史尘埃的'以理制欲'的人性论。

In the 1920s and 1930s, Liang Shiqiu criticized the new literary tradition of the May Fourth Movement, the Buddhism and Taoism tradition of ancient Chinese literature and the then flourishing proletariat literature respectively by means of the theory of human nature borrowed from Bai Bide abroad, thus logi- cally speaking, what Mr. Liang affirmed was the tradition of Confucianism literature. As a matter of fact, the theory of dual human nature Mr, Liang had acquired from afar in USA is virtually the then much-criticized theory of human nature of Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties, and what he endeavored to uphold was the very age-old theory of human nature marked by ＂the inhibition of desires by rationality＂.