伦理与审美的双重奏——儒家之礼的人类学解析

A Duet of Ethics and Aesthetic——An Anthropological Analysis of Confucian Rite

借鉴人类学关于仪式的研究成果,探讨传统儒家之礼对个体身心进行调节和实现社会整合的内在机制。儒家对礼进行建构的过程中,通过一系列具有审美意味的象征符号,展演了内在的伦理精神和道德理念,释放了个体的感性情感和欲望;通过赋予和强化个体的社会角色与身份,礼为个体生命的价值实现提供了一个构建意义的场域,同时也完成了对于个体的社会调控。

Based on the anthropological research achievements in ceremony,this paper explores the traditional internal mechanism in Confucian ritual to adjust individual physically and mentally and to achieve social integration.In its construction of ritual,Confucius shows in a serial of aesthetic symbols the internal ethical and moral concepts and release the individual＇s emotional feelings and desires.Confucian ritual emphasizes the significance by strengthening the social roles and the identity for individuals.At the same time individual＇s controls over the society is completed in this process.