老子母性伦理观与拉迪克母性思考之比较

A Comparison of Laozi's Maternal Ethics and Sara Ruddick's Maternal Thinking

我国道家学派创始人老子的母性伦理观与美国哲学家萨拉.拉迪克的母性思考既存在歧异,也存在契合。虽然因为文化背景和时代条件的不同,老子和萨拉.拉迪克对母亲有着不同的理解(前者理解的母亲是一种传统意义上的母亲,后者则是从文化和实践意义上界定母亲),然而,这两种思想的主旨是相通的,它们都推崇在生育和教养孩子过程之中所形成的母性品格及德性,并试图将其扩展到整个社会领域,以此消除社会冲突与战争,最终实现人类社会的和平。

The maternal ethics of Laozi,who is the founder of Taoism,and the maternal thinking of Sara Ruddick,who is an American philosophor,have both similarities and differences.Laozi and Sara Ruddick have the different understanding of mother because of the different cultural background and era.The former thinks of mother from traditional sense and the latter defines mother from cultural and practical sense.However,the purport of these two kinds of theory is the same.They both perpetuate maternal character and virtue formed in the practice of bearing and bringing up children and try to popularize it in the realm of society in order to eliminate the conflict and war of society and realize the peace of the world.