“横渠四句”与知识分子的使命感

张载是宋明儒学的主要奠基人之一,他在继承儒家自强不息精神的基础上,提出了具有民胞物予情怀和天人合一精神的"横渠四句":"为天地立心,为生民立命,为往圣继绝学,为万世开太平。"横渠四句"不仅体现了张载传承儒学道统的决心和信心,而且包含了士大夫深沉的忧患意识,以及由此引发的对道德理想和政治理想的不断追求和实践,并且这种追求和实践融入了中国士大夫无限的使命感和责任感,对于今天仍然有非常重大的现实意义。

"Four Sentences of Heng Qu" and the Intelligentsia's Sense of Mission

Zhang Zai was one of the major founders of Confucian learning in Song and Ming dynasties.On the basis of inheriting the spirit of constantly strive to become stronger by Confucians,he brought forwards the "Four Stentences of Heng Qu" with concerns about people and spirit of man and Nature being harmonious one: to establish intention for the world;to establish mission for the people;to inherit discontinued learning for the late saint;and to initiate peace for all ages.The "Four Stentences of Heng Qu" not only embodied Zhang Zais determination and faith to pass Confucian ethics,but also include the profound awareness by the intelligentsia of apprehension in peace time,leading to the pursuit and practice of ethic ideal and political ideal,which has merged into the sense of mission and responsibility of Chinese intelligentsia and is still of great realistic significance today.