试析孟子的人生价值观

在中国传统思想史上,孟子第一个系统地论述了他的人生价值观。他认为,人具有普遍而先验的道德本性,人生的价值在于通过自我的道德完善成就理想人格。因此,孟子对人生价值的认识主要是三个方面:一是从人性的角度提出道德本性是人生价值的根源;二是从理想人格的角度设定君子和圣人为人生价值的目标;三是从人格塑造的角度阐述以自我修养为主要途径的人生价值实现之路。

Mencius' Values in Life

In the history of China's traditional thought,Mencius is the first person who accounts his values in life systematically.He thinks that we human beings are characterized with universal and pre-experienced ethical natural instinct,and the values in life lie in achieving ideal personality through the perfecting of one's own morals.So,Mencius' understanding of values in life is mainly three respects: First,he proposes in terms of human nature that the ethical natural instinct is an origin of values in life;Second,he establishes gentleman and sage as the goal of values in life in terms of ideal personality;Third,he explains from personality moulding that cultivating oneself is the main way of realizing values in life.