中国伦理学史上的美善同源论

The Theory of the Co-originality of the Beauty and the Good in the History of Chinese Ethical Thought

道德与艺术的交融表现了中国古典伦理学和古典美学的一大特质。这一特质通过美善同源、生活乐趣与美学趣味、艺与德的相合相养关系等表现出来。其基本观念是,从人的整体上考察,道德上的善与艺术上的美都同出于人的总体生活,是一体同源的。这一理论倾向对于现代人由古典美学、伦理学向当代个体化审美的转型,建立道德性与艺术性兼具的个人生存样式,消解存在于道德、艺术与个人日常生活间的界限,消弭崇高道德、高雅艺术与普通大众之间存在的鸿沟,提供了可靠的理论资源。

The mixture of morality and art marks a distinctive feature of classical Chinese ethics and aesthetics. This feature is embodied in the co-originality of the beauty and the good, and the combination of the interests of life and the interests of aesthetics and of art and morality. The basic idea is that, considered as a whole, both the moral good and the artistic beauty originate from the life as a whole. This theory provides us reliable resources to understand the transformation of the aesthetic paradigms from ancient to modern, to establish a pattern of life which combines morality and art, and to erase the difference between morality and art and personal ordinary life and the one between high morality and high art and ordinary folks.