梁济之死与儒家传统道德的时代命运

Liang Ji's Suicide and the Fate of Traditional Moral Concept of Confucianists in the Early 20^(th) Century

1918年11月,梁济沉湖自尽。他以"殉清"为名,以"存国性"为目的而策划的自杀事件,一方面展示了其对儒家传统道德的执著,另一方面反映了这种道德价值已沦为一种抽象存在,难以在社会生活里发挥整合作用。梁济之死在某种程度上揭示了在传统政治与文化秩序解体的历史语境中,儒家传统道德与现实之间产生了"脱节"。面对传统道德沦丧,政治秩序混乱、社会道德堕落的困局,梁济以身殉道,以唤醒时人。

In November 1918, Liang Ji committed suicide by drowning himself in a lake for the Qing Dynasty. He wanted to show his devotion to Confucianism by his suicide, which reflected that this moral value was re- duced to an abstract existence, and couldn＇t play its integration role in the social life. Under the historical con- text of the disintegration of the traditional political and cultural order, Liang Ji＇s suicide, to some extent, re- flected the disjunction between the traditional moral concept of Confucianists and the social reality, the impact of foreign values on the effectiveness of traditional moral concept, and the disintegration from the traditional so- cial structure.