刘邵的理想人格:英雄和圣人的二重组合

刘邵的《人物志》,着眼于英雄和圣人的二重组合,反映了他的理想人格。《人物志》以严格的人性等级论为基础,设定有英雄和圣人两种人格范型,才性并重,崇尚人物通达的风神,突破了以道德衡量人物的单一标准,不仅是对古代人格理论的大提升,而且是解决时代问题的一种探索。但是,神秘超凡的特征和狭隘的现实效用,使其理论价值大为削弱,没有达到真、善、美的统一。

Liu Shao's Ideal Personality: the Unified Character of the Hero and the Sage

The article enters on the comparison between the hero and the sage from the study on human's ability, exploring Liu Shao's personality. The argument of the personality supposes two ideal patterns: the hero and the sage, pay equal attention to their ability and nature, and advocate personage's versatile mental outlook. It breaks through the single standard weighs the characters only by moral and promotes the ancient theory of personality. It's an exploration to resolve the problems in the time, which demonstrates the spirit of time. But the mysterious quality and the narrow factual effectiveness dreadfully weaken the value of the personality.