孟子的人格意识与士节

孟子承袭孔子所开示的人格意识与士节基础,将社会知识分子的自觉推向新的高度。他以“义”为支点,建立了以“仁义”为核心的道德理论,再通过“居仁由义”的道德实践,达到理想人格的最高典范:大丈夫。同时,孟子倾力批判了各种寡廉鲜耻的奴性人格,从而最终形成了完整的人格意识与士节体系。这是中华民族最可宝贵的精神财富,对后世知识分子影响深远。

Mencius's Consciousness of Personality and Scholar's Moral Integrity

Mencius adopted the consciousness of personality and the basis of scholar's moral integrity commenced by confu cius,and pushed forward the social intellectual's consciousness to new height.He employed"personal loyalty"as the basis to es tablish the ethical theory centered around"humanity and duty";furthermore,he attained highest model of perfect personality-true man.Through from-humanity-to loyalty ethical practice.Simultaneously, Mencius tried his best to criticize various kinds of shameless slarery personality so that he set up the intact system of consciousness of personality and scholar's moral in tegrity.It is the most valuable mental wealth for chinese,and will have a profound impact on intellectuals in later ages.