仁礼合一视域下的孔子生死观

Confucius’ View on Living and Death from Perspective of Integration between Benevolence and Propriety

孔子以仁礼合一的理论视域对“死生亦大”这一重大而严肃的人生命题进行了理论观照。一方面以“生生之谓仁”彰显出对生命尊严与价值的显性评价,另一方面将死亡看做人生有意义的事件,在理论上保留着对死亡的超越,面对死亡时采取了“朝闻夕死”的超然态度。以上两个方面共同构成了孔子对人的终极人文关怀与理论旨归。

From the theoretical perspective of the integration between benevolence and propriety,Confucius makes a theoretical observation on the important and serious proposition of life,and points out"death and living are both important things in life".On the one hand,the explicit evaluation of the dignity and value of life are demonstrated by his viewpoint that"living means benevolence".On the other hand,he regards death as a meaningful event of life,keeps the transcendence of death in theory,and takes a detached attitude of"living a meaningful life in the morning and dying a unregretful death in the evening"when faced with death.The above two aspects constitute the ultimate humanistic concern and theoretical purport of Confucius.