儒家传统的现代转化

On the Modernization of the Confucian Traditions

在西方文化特别是启蒙价值的冲击下,儒家的核心价值——仁、义、礼、智、信这些儒家传统已经基本上被解构了。但值得注意的是,一方面“五四”时代的文化精英对儒学的批判仍显肤浅和不足,启蒙仍未深入;另一方面,儒学必须对西方的强势有所回应,儒学的发展尽管障碍重重但它仍有转化重生的机缘。

The discourse first reviews several core values in Confucianism (such as Humanity, Rightness, Ceremony, Wisdom and Trust) , and then explicates the complexity and richness of the Confucian traditions on the facets of time, area and level. But under the impingement of Western civilization, all the traditions of Confucianism are dissipated on the whole. Thus, this lecture points out that, on the one hand, animadversions on Confucianism made by the cultural elites of the May Fourth Movement are still superficial, and the enlightenments of Western values are also skin-deep; on the other hand, Confucianism must respond to the reign of the West, so as to get a lucky chance of renascence.