德性认知的心理机制与启示

The Psychological Mechanisms and Inspiration of Moral Cognition

德性认知是兼具德性本源体证及相应道德行为二重性质的人类精神活动,从心理学视野对其研究,可以给出有别于传统哲学的解释。从儒家"德性所知"的学理框架,可提炼出德性认知的"叠套"认知机制——对终极信念图式的体证和基于此的对当下日常世界的德性认知与体验,两者互动性地推动着德性境界的发展,而"问极启性"是其精神驱动力。德性认知既不是宗教神秘体验,也与现代的智力观念和认知科学中所谓"具身认知"有实质性差异,其心理机制为当前个体信仰研究提供了理论框架,是认知研究应拓展的新领域。

Moral cognition is a spiritual activity characterized by the twofold elements of intellectual intuition of the sources of morality and the corresponding moral conduct.Research from a psychological perspective offers an interpretation that differs from that of traditional philosophy.From the theoretical framework of the Confucian 'innate moral knowledge,' one can draw out the 'telescoped' cognitive mechanisms of moral cognition——the intellectual intuition of ultimate belief schemas and,on this basis,the cognizance and experience of today's everyday world.The two interact to catalyze the development of the moral realm,driven spiritually by 'inquiring about the ultimate and taking inspiration from the nature of things.' Moral cognition is not a mysterious religious experience,and it is substantively different from the modern concept of intelligence and the 'embodied cognition' of the cognitive sciences.Its psychological mechanisms provide a theoretical framework for contemporary research on the beliefs of individuals and offer new scope for the development of research on cognition.