“吟风弄月”还是“得君行道”——周敦颐礼学思想新论

Between Daoism and Confucianism:A New Study on Zhou Dunyi’s Thoughts on Ritual

周敦颐被奉为道学宗主,他的礼学思想学术界关注不多。周敦颐的思想既继承了传统儒家积极用世的一面,同时也与北宋中期儒家推明治道的政治主张完全一致。他完整地继承了儒家内圣外王的思想,这也是他对宋代道学发展的贡献。他提出的“礼,理也”虽然还不具备理学天理论意义上的“理”,但他通过对大《易》的思考,将人的存在、人类社会的人伦秩序与宇宙万物的演化看作是一体的,在宋代儒学的发展过程中开启了礼的形上化思考,指点了后来理学家的运思方向,从这个意义上来说,周敦颐也是宋代礼学思想的开山。

Zhou Dunyi was acknowledged as the founder of Neo-Confucianism,but his thoughts about Confucian Ritual had not been researched enough.He inherited positive attitudes to society from traditional Confucianism,which was consistent with Confucian political reform in the Northern Song.This is his contribution to Neo-Confucianism.Even though his thoughts about Ritual had no ontological meaning,he believed that human beings,society,morality and the universe are integrated as a whole,which was the beginning of metaphysical mode about Ritual and social order.From this perspective,Zhou was also the founder of Ritual thoughts in the Song Dynasty.