论荀子的天道观及其价值向度

On Xunzi’s Outlook on Way of Heaven and the Values

荀子的天道观破除了先秦时期"天命论"的神秘色彩,揭示了人类社会与自然之间的本质联系,为建设和谐共存的天人秩序提供了理论依据。荀子在承认天道不可变的同时,也认为天命不足畏;当人们深信天即自然,自然的运行有规律可循之后,人就有了主宰自然,裁制万物的勇气和信心。这种信心和魄力对于今天的人们解决社会发展与转型中科学主义泛滥和人本主义失落的双重危机,克服人与自然的失衡,具有极大的现实意义。

Xunzi’s Outlook onWay of Heaven chahilenged the blindly worship of destiny in Xian Qin period and announced the essence relationship between human and nature.Xunzi insist a regular pattern can not be changed and the destiny should not be afraid.When human insist heaven is nature,they will be the master of heaven.The faith was worthy to resolve the danger of modernistic,such as the wrong useness of seientific theory and the imbalance between human and nature.