基于积极心理学视野下先秦儒家的自强人格探微

Pre-Qin Confucian Self-Strengthening Personality in the Perspective of Positive Psychology

虽然当代积极心理学兴起于20世纪末,但以追求自强人格为核心的积极心理早在中国先秦儒家哲学思想中已有明确阐述。先秦儒家认为,人们应该像永生不息的天地一样,具有自强不息、积极有为的精神。先秦儒家哲学中的自强人格表现出自强不息,坚韧不拔;知命豁达,乐观向上;革故鼎新,顺天而变等特点。自强人格的建构主要表现在内圣外王、穷达持节、修己安人等人格的培育过程中。

The contemporary rise of positive psychology in the end of the 20th century could date back to the pursuit of self-strengthening personality as the core of positive psychology articulated in the pre-Qin Confucian philosophy. In the pre-Qin Confucian thought, people should be like the world of the living and have a promising unyielding and positive spirit. In the pre-Qin Confucian philosophy, self-strengthening personality shows unyielding perseverance, open-minded optimism and timely changed improvement. The self-strengthening personality is constructed in the building up the internal saint and external king personality, sticking to the morality, either in poverty or prosperity, as well as taking self-cultivation while bringing peace and security to others.