Keywords:
Chinese culture; Virtue; Dao; Cultural psychology; Tracing to the origin
中国文化;德;道;文化心理;探源
Abstract:
As tracing the origin of the concept of virtue on the horizon of Chinese culture, it is able to be found that the essential attribute of virtue is psychogenic, which contains rich connotation of cultural psychology. In origin, virtue is closely related to Dao. Dao is the law of changing in the operation of Yin and Yang counterbalance each other and the natural generation, evolution and development law of various things formed resulted by it; Virtue is the special nature and the law of movement of various specific things embodied by Dao. For people, virtue is the natural endowment and developmental law given to people by Dao, the momentum or mental aura in people’s dealing with the world according to the Dao, and the psychological quality formed by making contributions to people, society and even mankind but without relying on these contributions. According to this analysis, “Virtue” can be defined as “the innate gifts endowed by ‘Dao’ and psychological qualities developed on this basis in postnatal days and taking social responsibility and contribution as the core, such as altruism and energy field, which is the psychological complex of the unity of Xin, Yi, ability and action.”
从中国文化视界对德的概念追本溯源,可以发现德的本质属性是心理性,它蕴含丰富的文化心理内涵。在本源上,德与道密切相关。道是阴阳相生相克的运行变化以及由此形成的事物自然而然的生成、演变和发展规律;德是道具体化为的事物的特殊性质及其运动变化规律。就人而言,德是道赋予给人的禀赋和发展规律,是人按道为人处世而形成的气势或气场,是人有功于人、社会乃至人类而不自恃的心理素养。依据这一分析,可以将德界定为“‘道’所赋予的人的先天禀赋以及在此基础上在后天发展起来的以社会担当力和贡献力为核心的利他性、能量场等心理素养,是心、意、能、行统一的心理综合体。”