重新理解中国文明中的“家”

Re-Understanding the"Home"in Chinese Civilization

近年来,学术界开始重新理解中国文明中的“家”。这是因为,在晚清民初,随着中国的现代转型,家国结构、人伦关系、家庭道德全面解体、重组。而经历百年之后,中国文明传统中的“家”最基本的要素,即以父子、夫妇为基础的家庭模式与以孝为基础的家庭道德,在现代中国仍然是支配性的。当代学术研究“家”与“孝”的问题,主要有两种思路:一是从现代哲学的角度出发,讨论“家哲学”;二是从传统经典出发,理解中国人伦关系、家庭关系的古今之变。这些不同的进路,融汇成为当代学术重新寻找“家”的潮流。

In recent years,the academic community has begun to re-understand the"home inChinese civilization.This is because the family-state structure,human relations,and family morality were comprehensively disintegrated and reorganized in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China with the modern transformation of China.A hundred years later,the most basic elements of the"family"in the Chinese civilization tradition,that is,the family model based on father and son,husband and wife,and the family morality based on filial piety,are still dominant in modern China.There are two main ways of thinking in contemporary academic research on the issue of"family"and""filial piety":one is to discuss"family philosophy"from the perspective of modern philosophy;The second is to start from the traditional classics to understand the changes in the ancient and modern relationships between Chinese ethics and family relations.The convergence of these different approaches has become the trend of contemporary scholarship to re-find"home.