君子人格与儒家修养中的美学悖论

Personality of the Gentleman and Aesthetic Paradox of Confucian Attainment

儒家思想追求人生的内在超越,内在超越的目标是君子人格。儒家的君子人格是在克服"仁"与"礼"、"质"与"文"的悖论的基础上建立起来的。儒家克服这种人生悖论的方法不是抽象思辨,而是具体实践,在这种意义上,它大致相当于天才艺术家和理想批评家对艺术创造和欣赏中的悖论的克服。正是在这种意义上,我们主张儒家修养中的人生悖论是一种美学悖论,解决这种悖论的方式不是科学而是人生艺术。

Confucianism pursues an internal transcendence, whose goal is in turn the gentleman＇ s personality. Confucian personality of the gentleman was not established until it had overcame the paradox between ＂benevolence＂ and ＂propriety＂ and between ＂character＂ and ＂style＂. Confucianists overcame these paradoxes not by thinking abstractly comes the paradox but by doing practically, namely, almost the way a artistic genius or an idealistic critic overbetween artistic production and artistic appreciation. It is just in this sense that we think that the paradox of human life in Confucian attainment is actually an aesthetic paradox, which is to be overcome not by science but by the art of human life.