浅谈国际儒学视角下的儒家使命

Confucian Mission from the Perspective of International Confucianism

上个世纪,儒家在经历了新文化运动的全盘否定之后,变得衰微至极,直到数十年后,儒学复兴运动才开始兴起,可以说一波三折。这里复兴的“新儒学”指的是一批学者希望吸收西方文明而重建儒家道德以抗拒全面否定传统的趋势,为中国的现代化发展寻找出路。儒家通过吸收学习西方的自由和民主思想来更好地适应当前现代化道路上的中国社会,同样的道理,当今世界的许多问题也可以从传统儒家思想中提取新的视角。新时期的新儒者应该吸收西方现代化思想,“化西入儒”,为儒学复兴带来动力,更应该让传统儒家思想走出国门,为解决世界其他地区的问题提供“中国传统方案”,这是新时期儒家的使命。本文旨在分析儒家应如何在儒学复兴,儒学在世界范围内影响力大大加深的背景下发挥儒学的“教化”作用,以及如何使得儒学进一步地走向国际。

In the last century,after the total negation of the new culture movement,Confucianism became extremely weak.The revived“neo-confucianism”here refers to a group of scholars who wish to absorb western civilization and rebuild Confucian morality in order to resist the trend of denying all traditions and find a way out for China’s modernization.By absorbing western ideas of freedom and democracy,Confucianism can better adapt to the current Chinese society on the road to modernization.In the same way,many problems in today’s world can also be extracted from the traditional Confucianism from a new perspective.Neo-confucianists in the new period should absorb the western modernization thought,“turn the west into Confucianism”,and bring impetus to the revival of Confucianism.More importantly,they should let the traditional Confucianism go abroad and provide“traditional Chinese solutions”for solving problems in other parts of the world,which is the mission of Confucianism in the new period.The purpose of this paper is to analyze how Confucianism should play its“indoctrination”role in the context of the revival of Confucianism and the deepening influence of Confucianism in the world,and how to further promote Confucianism to the international arena.