孟子的恻隐之心及其现代价值

Mencius's sympathy and its modern value

何为恻隐之心,《说文解字》解释说:"恻,痛也。"现代汉语词典中解释为:对他人的不幸予以同情、怜悯。两千年前,孟子首先提出这一概念并认为:"恻隐之心,人皆有之。"进一步指出了"无恻隐之心,非人也。"孟子以此为基点建构起它的整个学说。本文试图重新审视恻隐之心这一命题,并探讨其现代价值。

What is the sympathy,' ShuoWen JieZi' explained:' sad is pain.' Modern Chinese dictionary explanation is: Be sympathetic to others.Two thousand years ago,Mencius first proposed this concept and thought:' sympathy,all the people have.' And further pointed out that ' No sympathy is nonhuman'.Mencius constructed its whole doctrine through this.This paper attempts to examine the proposition of sympathy,and analyzes its modern value.