非洲群体意识的内涵及其表现形式

The Implied Meaning and Its Presentation of the Sense of Community in Africa

群体意识或共同体意识在非洲传统道德伦理中始终居于至高无上的地位,并且构成了宗教哲学的本质内涵。非洲人的群体意识或共同体意识反映在社会形态、社会结构、社会关系等诸多层面,其内涵可以用一统、和谐、互助、分享等加以概述。非洲人的群体意识还反映在赡养老人、抚育幼儿、婚姻习俗及日常生活方面,且体现在传统的伦理道德、艺术美学和司法制度中。它与自身所处的生产和生活环境相适应,只要大家庭继续扮演着"保险公司"的社会角色,那么以大家庭、亲属关系和村社制度著称的传统社会结构与社会关系就不会真正瓦解;那么作为其观念形态的群体意识也依然具有生命力。

The Sense of community has always been positioned in the highest in African traditional ethic and constitutes the initial meaning of African religious philosophy. The Sense of community is reflected in social formations,social structures and social relations and its connotation can be summarized as unification,harmonization,mutual assistance and sharing. The African Sense of Community is as well reflected in maintaining the seniors and juniors,marriage customs and their daily lives,and also in the traditional ethic,art aesthetics and judicial systems. It accords with the people's life of production and living environment. As long as a big family is playing the social role of an 'insurance company',the traditional social structures and relations characteristic of big family,relatives and village system may not be regarded as collapsed and the group awareness,as ideology,lives.