宋代家训中的善恶报应观及其社会作用

Retribution View of Good and Evil in Family Instruction of Song Dynasty

宋代家训中善恶报应观的内容主要包括三个部分:揭示人们行为的心理动机、告诫人们天必降报、劝勉人们自省行善。这些内容对个体行动和群体规范具有指导作用,这种作用途径主要围绕修身合群与循礼善群展开,前者强调个体道德内化,后者重视群体制度规范,从而在传统社会生活中发挥作用。在当今社会生活中,这种观念仍然深刻影响着人们对于社会事件的判断,对人们的思想观念和社会行动具有指导作用,其社会价值不可小觑。

The“retribution view of good and evil”in family instruction of Song Dynasty has a guiding role in enhancing group nature.This way of action mainly focuses on the cultivation of individual morality and following the norms.The former focuses on individual moral internalization,the latter focuses on the norms of the group system.Those two ways play an important role in the traditional social life.Nowadays,this concept still has a profound impact on people’s judgment of social events,and has a guiding role in people’s social actions,so its social value can not be underestimated.