“唯乐不可以为伪”:对儒家乐教真情本质的考察

“Only Yue Cannot be Faked”-An Inspection on the Essence of True Emotion in Confucian’s Yue Education

“唯乐不可以为伪”阐明儒家的“乐”(yue)以真情成其感人深、化人速、致人乐(le)、效最捷之教。儒家乐教的真情本质自孔子发问:“人而不仁,如乐何?”便以“仁”所内含的“爱人”之情与“乐”所建塑的“合爱”之情同真并启;又经《荀子·乐论》《礼记·乐记》、嵇康《声无哀乐论》直证:“生于心”“感物而动”“不可免”的“乐”是“其声出于情也信”与“乐行志清”;并在诗、乐一体中以“好善恶恶”之真志“兴观群怨”,助推“礼”之践行。主体在乐所营造的真情世界,打开、抒发、共鸣、相知自身“仁心”中的真情,乐(le)且同乐(le)地化成仁者和仁之礼文社会。

“Only Yue cannot be faked”indicates that Confucian’s Yue-education is moving people deeply,civilizing people rapidly,making people happiness by true emotion,which starts from Confucius to ask a question about benevolence and Yue.The essence of the true feelings of Confucian Yue-education has been in the mind of Confucius since he asked,“If a man is not benevolent,how can he be happy?”The“love for others”embedded in“benevolence”and the“love for one another”shaped by Yue-education are the same and true.It is also proved by Xun Zi On Music,Book of Ritual and Music,and Ji kang’s Music is Ir⁃relevant to Grief or Joy that“Yue”is“born in the heart”,and“moved by feeling”.In poetry and Yue,the true will of“good and evil”was used to“raise the view of the grievances of the people”and to promote the practice of“rites”.As the two important parts of Yue,the innocence and neutralization in poetry implies the essence of true emotion in poetry,which confirms the essence of true emotion in Yue again.People in the cultivation of Confucianism’s Yue-education build a benevolent and harmonious society.