儒学“女性正名”的有效性评估与儒家女性伦理学前途展望——评王堃的《坤道与空阙:“女性”的诗性正名》

An Assessment of the Effectiveness to the Rectification of Name for Confucianism and Future Prospects of the Confucian Feminist Ethics:A Book Review of Wang Kun's Kun Way-Making and Positive Absence:Confucian Thinking on the Feminine Gender

王堃的《坤道与空阙:“女性”的诗性正名》一书,从本源、工夫、伦理原则、道德规范等层面对儒学做了女性主义的正名工作,揭示了儒家理论自身带有的女性化特征,这有助于修正人们长期以来附加给儒学的“男权”“父权”标签,至少能够澄清其中很多误解。不过,在浓郁、浪漫的女性主义情怀之下,此书的正名工作也有矫枉过正之嫌,因为它将儒学彻底女性化了。此书的“正名”工作服务于作者“儒家女性伦理学”或者说“女性儒学”的理论建构。“儒家女性伦理学”应该成为当代儒学多元开展的一个方向,这能够深化儒家对人性的普遍性认识和时代性认识。对女性化情感体验、诉求之有限性的自觉,是“儒家女性伦理学”长远、良性发展的重要前提。

Wang Kun's book Kun Way-Making and Positive Absence is a feminist rectification of the name for Confucianism in terms of its origin,moral cultivation,ethical principles and moral norms.This book reveals the feminine characteristics of the Confucian theory itself,which can help to correct the male power and patriarchal power labels long attached to Confucianism,or at least to clarify many of these misconceptions.However,under the strong,romantic feminist sentiment,the book's work of rectification of the name is also overkill,as it completely feminises Confucianism.The book's work of rectification of name serves the author's theoretical construction of Confucian feminist ethics or female Confucianism.Confucian feminist ethics should become a direction for the pluralistic development of contemporary Confucianism.This can deepen Confucianism's universal and contemporary understanding of human nature.The consciousness of the limited nature of feminine emotional experiences and demands is an important prerequisite for the long-term and benign development of Confucian feminist ethics.