《性自命出》的成德进路

Approach to Morality in Disposition out of Providence

郭店楚简《性自命出》从经验的心性论出发,阐明在形下层面的"性"为"情气",在性、心、志、习、物的互动关系中"情气"被提取为或善或恶,表达了一种自然人性论的立场。心志是提取善恶的关键,故需通过礼乐教化的修身手段确立心志,以心志导引化正情气,以原发之真情为出发点,将其不断提升,达到"闻道反己""生德于中"的目的。对"性自命出,命自天降""道始于情"等重大命题做出了不同于时贤的解说。

The unearthed Chu Jian's article Disposition out of Providence, starting from its theory of experiential intelligence, illustrates 'disposition' as 'emotional morale' from which goodness and evilness can be extracted through interaction of disposition, mind, will, habit and material, which expresses a natural position of the theory of human nature. Whereas the mind-will plays a key role in that extraction, it would follow that the mind-will should be established through edification in rites and music, and guide to edify the emotional morale to its rightness, in order to start from the original morale and keep ascending as to reach its own ends. Unlike the ultimate pursuit to transcendental principle in Five Elements, this unearthed article incarnates a secular approach to morality through edification in rites and music, to which the author of this paper contributes a different interpretation, especially to its major propositions.