郭店简《五行》德行伦理思想论析

On the Moral and Ethical Thought of The Five Elements in the Guodian Bamboo Slips

郭店简《五行》以“天道”论德,从“圣人知天道也”的视角阐释了人类行为道德性的根源,表现出一种基于《诗》《书》的早期儒家“天道德行”观。《五行》以仁、义、礼、智、圣五种“德之行”为基本内容,建构了独具特色的德行结构体系,以“中心”、内、外之论,为“在心为德,施之为行”的中国德行论传统奠定了基本内核,并对后世孟子、董仲舒道德观念体系的形成产生了深远的影响。

The Five Elements in the Guodian Bamboo Slips discusses morality through the way of heaven,explaining the moral underpinnings of human behavior from the perspective of“the sage understands the way of heaven”,and expressing an early Confucian view of“virtue belongs to the way of heaven”based on The Book of Songs and The Book of History.The Five Elements builds a unique structural system of moral behavior based on the five“moral behaviors”of benevolence,righteousness,propriety,wisdom,and holiness.The notion of“heart”,“inside”and“outside”lays the foundation for the Chinese tradition of“having virtue in the heart and putting it into action”,and has had a significant impact on the formation of later Mencius and Dong Zhongshu’s moral concept system.