叶适功利之学的特色及其启示

The Characteristics and Enlightenment of Ye Shi's Utilitarian Study

叶适的功利之学具有独树一帜的义利观,其对中庸之道的坚守,显示出他对儒学根本的坚持。叶适主张“崇义以养利”,坚持义利统一论,既反对以义抑利,又反对见利忘义。通过他对朱熹理学和王安石变法的批判,还可以看出其思想有种浓厚的经世思想和民本思想。叶适的思想,对当代精神文明建设和物质文明建设的协调发展,以及重视群众利益的群众路线的发展,都有重要的启示作用。

Ye Shi's utilitarian study has a unique righteousness and benefit,but its adherence to the middle shows his fundamental adherence to Confucianism.Ye Shi advocated“advocating virtue to foster profits”and adhered to the theory of unity of righteousness and profit,which opposed both righteousness and ungrateful.Through his criticism of Zhu Xi's Confucianism and Wang Anshi's transformation,it can also be seen that his thought has a strong thought of the classics and the people-oriented thought.Ye Shi's thought has important enlightenment to the construction of contemporary spiritual civilization and the coordinated development of material civilization construction,and the mass line which attaches importance to the interests of the masses.