论袁黄及其研究的当代价值

On the Contemporary Value of YUAN Huang and His Theory

袁黄博学多产、爱民勤政、追求积德行善,不仅洁身自好,利用功过格约束、督促自己去邪念恶行,且撰写《改过之法》、《积德之方》,专论积德行善,其中既有规律性的认识,又有实际操作方法,极力劝说、帮助他人同自己一样做好事、成好人。他在明中叶道德沦丧相当严重的情况下,发挥了超出一般的正面作用,在保证中华民族善良、正直、清廉、为民的优良传统生生不息上作出了贡献。在400年后的今天,认真分析其作出贡献的方式、方法和指导思想,可以得到有益的借鉴。而在继承、发扬袁黄的善言善行时,也应注意辩证地对待其以因果报应作为理论体系基础的局限性,唯物主义者在将与之混在一起的精华分离出来、加以适当改造、纳入社会主义主流意识体系之中的同时,拒绝其鬼神存在的唯心主义说法。

YUAN Huang was an erudite and prolific writer, a diligent official who cherished the people, and a person did good deeds. He was a clean liver, and refused to be contaminated by evil influences with ledger. YUAN Huang wrote The Method of Correct ones Mistakes and The Way for Accumulating Virtue , which includes both regularity cognition and practical methods, and those two books extremely persuade and help others to do good deeds and to be good men as he did. Then, YUAN Huang has played a highly positive role for promoting excellent Chinese traditions, especially in the middle of the Ming Dynasty when moral perversity was serious. At present, we can draw lessons from his ways, methods and thoughts he made 400 years ago. While developing his ways and thoughts, we must adopt dialectical approaches to treat the limitations of his karma - based theory. Materialists separate the essence of the theory from the limitations, before adjusting appropriately to make sure it will be able to fit into the socialist mainstream ideology, while opposing the idealism for the existence of ghosts and gods.