“消极”的庄子不消极

“Negative” Zhuangzi Isn't Negative

一般人总是以为,庄子厌世,避世,对于人生持一种悲观消极态度。我们认为,事实并非如此。庄子乐观,豁达,热爱生活,其积极进取的人生态度,不仅体现在始终追求人格独立与自由、安贫乐道等个人修为上,同时还表现于胸怀天下、悲悯群生,满怀深情地构思和向往着一个自由、祥和、"太和万物"的"至德之世"。庄子构设的"至德之世",公权力得到充分有效抑制,天赋之民权得到空前伸张,人们直接把生活当成审美,诗意地栖居于天地之间。显然,庄子积极的生活态度和高尚人格及其对于理想社会的异常之思,对于今天的人类,化解人与自我、人与世界之间的紧张关系,最终实现把以功利为主导的人生价值取向转换成以审美为导向的人生观,仍然具有重要的启迪意义。

Most people think that Zhuangzi was world-weary, tried to escape reality and had a negative pessimistic attitude about life. But we believe that this is not the case.The fact is that Zhuangzi was optimistic, open-minded, and deeply loved the life and had the positive attitude of life. Zhuangzi＇s positive attitude of life embodied not only in his personal moral cultivation, such as pursuing personality independence and freedom, being contented in poverty and devoted to Tao, as well as incarnated in having the whole world in mind, sympathy for all lives all over the world, lovingly conceiving and yearning for a world advocating moral character where each person has a free, peaceful life, all things are harmonious together in it.In the world advocating moral character, civil rights of public power are in the state of fully effective suppression, private civil rights get unprecedented stretching, and people regard life as aesthetic directly, poeticly live in the earth. Obviously, Zhuangzi＇s positive attitude towards life and noble personality and abnormality of the ideal society, for contemporary people, still have edificatory importance for dissolving the tension between the man and self, human beings and the world, ultimately achieving the goal of transforming the utilitarian values into the outlook on life of aesthetic-oriented.