从"性"、"命"概念的演化看《易传》的著作年代及思想渊源

A study of the completed time of Yi zhuan and its ideological sources by the evolution of the concepts of "(human) nature" and "mandate

本文通过对先秦儒学"性"、"命"概念之演化与发展的历史考察,指出:《易传》的性命之论与《中庸》、楚简、孟学相契,而与荀学不类;《易传》的创作年代是在荀子之前之思孟学派形成和兴盛时期,而不是在荀子之后。

Through a historical examination of the evolution and development of the concepts of '(human) nature' and 'mandate' appeared in Confucian documents of the preQin times, this paper points out that theories on '(human) nature and mandate' expounded in Yi zhuanaccord with those elaborated in the Doctrine of the Mean, certain materials on slips excavated at Chu, and Mencius, but are not similar with theories of XUN zi (313-230 BC); The completed time of Yi zhuanshould be during the time when the Confucian school of Zi Si and Mencius was forming and flourishing, but not after the day of XUN zi.