先秦儒家幸福观及其当代启示

Tracing the Confucian View of Happiness in Pre-Qin and Its Contemporary Implications

早在先秦时期,儒家就对幸福的定义以及实现幸福的途径进行了充分探讨并形成了较为系统的幸福观。先秦儒家认为,心怀仁爱是人们通往幸福的重要源泉,以仁节欲是人们追寻幸福过程中应执守的重要原则,“达兼穷独”是人们收获幸福的重要途径。直至今日,先秦儒家幸福观对于营造良好社会风气、实现社会和谐发展仍具有深刻的理论启发意义。

As early as the pre-Qin period, Confucianism explored the definition of happiness and the ways to achieve it, and formed a more systematic view of happiness. According to Confucianism, benevo-lence is an important source of happiness, benevolence is an important principle to be observed in the pursuit of happiness, and “reaching and being poor” is an important way to harvest happiness. To this day, the Confucian concept of happiness is still of profound theoretical inspiration for cre-ating a good social climate and achieving harmonious social development.