中西方“人的道德本质”理论探讨之比较

A Comparison of Theoretical Discussions on Human Morality Nature of the West and China

做人一定要有道德,如果失去了它,就像在茫茫大海中,没有指南针一样。其实做人很简单,关键是要拥有威严而又诚实的道德本质。为了进一步说明道德与人类的本质的关系,中国与西方的不少思想家对人的道德本质理论进行探讨。他们都把善恶问题与人的道德本质结合起来,并提出了人的道德本质是善的、恶的和不善不恶等观点。笔者主要想通过对中国与西方在人的道德本质问题上的探讨进行比较,分析两者的共性与差异性,并提出一些对人们现实生活中有用的理论启迪。

To be an upright person, one must have morality. Without which, one will have no guide like to be in boundless ocean without compass. Actually to conduct oneself is quite simple if one possesses the dignified and honest key-morality nature. To illustrate further the relationship between morality and human nature, quite a few thinkers in the west and China have probed into the theories of morality nature. They bound good-and-evil with human morality nature and proposed the views like good nature, evil nature, no good and no evil nature, and so on. This paper tries to compare the theoretical discussions on human morality nature of the west and China, analyze their commonness and dissimilarities, and lodge some theoretical enlightenment for our real life.