初心何以不忘?——论王阳明的持志辩证法及其启示

How to Stick to Your Ambition:Discussing Wang Yangming's Dialectics of Perseverance and Its Enlightenment

立志之后,人们往往面临如何持志的问题。立志不持,则流于空想。如何持志既关乎对事物发展规律的认识,也关乎行之有效的正确方法。王阳明基于心学立场,为人们提供了持志的多种方法。他认为人们要通过出入以定志来凝聚道德意识、有无以辩志来明辨道德动机、警戒以责志来校正道德认知、患难以励志来坚定道德意志、勇毅以成志来推动道德实践。他的持志说既回答了追求理想过程中遇到的各种问题,启发人辩证地把握内容与形式、目标与手段、动机与效果等问题,同时也建立了理想与现实之间紧密的直接的联系,为我们如何坚定理想信念、化解道德理想与现实的冲突及其解决提供了重要的方法论。

Once making up one's mind,people often face the problem of how to stick to it.Other wise will become a pipe dream.How to keep one's ambition is not only related to the understanding of the development law of things,but also to the effective and correct methods.Based on the standpoint of psychology,Wang Yangming provides people with various ways to stick to their ambitions.He believes that people must consolidate moral consciousness,distinguish moral motivation,correct moral cognition,firm moral will,and promote moral practice with courage.His dialectics of perseverance not only answers various problems encountered in the pursuit of ideals,but also inspires people to dialectically grasp the relationship between the content and form,goals and means,motivation and effects.At the same time,it also establishes a close and direct connection between ideals and reality,which provides an important methodology for us to deepen our commitment to the ideals and convictions and to resolve the conflict between moral ideals and reality.