文化的伦理本质与现代德性生活的价值真理——公共生活中“诚”与“真”品质的回归

The Ethical Nature of Culture and the Truth of Values of Modern Virtuous Existence——The Recurrence of Honesty and Genuinety in Public Life

浸淫于现代性文化中的"市场社会",历来存在一种将"私性欲望"合理化、正当化甚至神圣化的疏离性机制。道德自我持续的任性放逐和自甘边缘化,导致"意义"和"价值"的深度分离,造成一种愈来愈严重的"匿名化"和"非人格化"生存现实。其结果,使得原本为"德性之母"的"文化"本身亦难以逃脱逐渐被分化的命运,丧失了其本有、应有的整体性优良伦理的秩序功能。广幅面的社会内在性道德质素的严重贫困,普通民众基本德性品质的缺失,使一种"道德无根性生存"成为道德个体不得不面对的窘境现实。为着一种体面、尊严、优雅进而高贵的属人生活之理想境遇,我们需要以文化价值信仰的名义,澄净我们的心性追求,澄明现代德性生活之价值真理。其宗旨在于,回归文化的伦理本质,重铸一种奠基于"诚"与"真"为道德本体支撑的实质性意义的"德性的生活",从而为当代世界"美德伦理"的复兴,贡献有益于时代的智识和智慧。

In the market society which is immersed in modern culture, there has existed an isolating mechanism that makes private desire reasonable, justified, and even sanctified. Significance and values have become seriously divorced from each other, because morality has remained continuously capricious and kept itself marginalized. Therefore, a more and more serious anonymous and non-personified reality of existence has come into being. As a result, culture which originally served as the foundation of virtue can hardly escape the destiny of being gradually disintegrated, and it has lost its inherent function of institutionalization for holistic good ethics. Under such a difficult actuality, we have to face some immoral existence like the serious poverty and absence of the inherent virtuous order. To pursue an ideal life which is marked with grace and honor, we have to clarify our pursuit of mind and modern virtuous existence in the name of our faith in cultural values. Our aim is to restore the ethical nature of culture, rebuild a virtuous existence of essential significance which is supported by virtuous entities on the basis of honesty and genuinety. Then we can devote to the rejuvenation of virtuous ethics in the contemporary world our wisdom and intelligence which are beneficial to our times.