儒家“中和”之德及其现代价值

On the Confucian Virtues of Mean and Harmony and Their Modern Values

儒家的"中"德,不仅是"至德",并且是本体论和方法论。作为方法论,是动态地把握事物矛盾的"度"。"和"指统一体内有差异的多种因素间的协调。"中"、"和"是体与用、因与果的关系。"中和"之德,被诸多世界著名学者视为中国文化的精髓和现代社会的良药,"儒家文化圈"诸国从中受益甚多。

In Confucianism, the value of Mean is not only the Highest virtue, but also the ontology and the methodology. As the methodology, it gives the measure to dynamically balance the contradictions among things. Meanwhile, Harmony means the coordination of different factors within a unity, and bears the relation to Mean which is also that of ＂Object＂ and ＂Application＂, and of cause and effect. The two virtues are considered as the soul of Chinese traditional culture and the resolvent for problems in modem society by many world famous scholars, and have benefitted a lot the countries which belong to Confucian cultural circle.