实践理性的本体与价值:儒家诚德的现代义理-《南京师大学报》（社会科学版）

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Title:: Noumenon and Value of Practical Rationality: On the Modern Meaning of Confucian Sincerity

Keywords:: sincerity; Confucian; noumenon; value; complete and constant sincerity; self-realization of sincerity

摘要:: 诚德在儒学美德论中具有特殊的意义,是一种兼具“天道”和“人道”之特质、“即本体而工夫”的德性,然而诚德的深刻意蕴常常为现代生活所遮蔽。德性伦理学的视域中,“至诚无息”呈现出儒家实践理性的根源与本体,人之德性获得高明、博厚、悠远之“形而上”根据; “诚者自成”展现出儒家实践理性的意义与价值,成己、成物、成事、合内外之道意味着德性何以自成目的性。儒家诚德现代义理的探讨,是阐释儒家德性论的基础性工作,同时也能为当代道德建设提供有益的思想资源。

Abstract:: Possessing special significance in the Confucian virtue theory, sincerity is a type of virtue characterized by its combination of the dimensions of “nature” and “humanity” and of “noumenon” and “ability”. But its profound meaning has been disguised by modern life. From the perspective of virtue ethics, the principle of “complete and constant sincerity” manifests the noumenon of Confucian virtue, which offers human virtue a brilliant, deep, and lasting metaphysical foundation. The principle of “self-realization of sincerity” reveals the value of Confucian virtue: to know ourselves; to know and change the outside world; to fulfil one’s social duty and function; and to integrate the inside and the outside worlds mean that morality is its own purpose. An exploration of the modern meaning of Confucian sincerity is the basic work for interpreting the meaning of Confucian virtue theory, which can provide useful ideological resources for the construction of virtue in the contemporary world.