“存天理,灭人欲”思想的现代启示——重评朱熹的理欲观

The Modern Revelation of the Thinking about "Making the Course of Nature Existent and the Desire of Human Extinct"——Re-comment on Zhu Xi's View of Reason and Desire

朱熹是中国古代史上著名的思想家、哲学家和教育家,也是宋明理学的集大成者,他的理学思想集中体现在"存天理,灭人欲"的系统论述上。过去在一段较长的时期内,人们对朱熹"存天理,灭人欲"思想的片面批判,给中国哲学史界造成了一定的混乱。今天我们重新研究朱熹的思想就会发现,其"存天理,灭人欲"的思想,对于我们反腐倡廉、遏制现实生活中因私欲膨胀而滋生的腐败现象,仍然具有十分积极的借鉴作用和启迪意义。

As the famous ideologist, philosopher, educationist and the master of ethics studying in the Song and Ming Dynasties in the ancient history of China, Zhu Xi's ethics thinking is focused on the system explication about 'making the course of nature existent and the desire of human extinct'. It is the unilateral repudiation on Zhu Xi's thinking about 'making the course of nature existent and the desire of human extinct' in a long period that has made some confusion in the philosophy history circle of China. When we study Zhu Xi's thoughts again, we would find his thinking of 'making the course of nature existent and the desire of human extinct' still have quite active function for reference and enlightening significance for us to reject corruption and advocate moral cleaning, restrain the corruption in the realist life because of the expanding of selfish desire.