永恒的人类之善--谈孔子和亚里士多德中庸思想的契合

孔子与亚里士多德处于公元前四五世纪中西轴心时代,相差一百六十多年,地域、国家、民族、时代、文化的差异并没有阻隔他们心灵、精神的暗相与会,用美国新人文主义杰出代表白璧德的话来说他们都见证了人类正常经验的核心。在中庸这一思想上,孔子和亚里士多德惊人一致地阐明了中庸是天人合一或与神合一的最高的善,是万事万物达到最佳状态的度,是人类最高的道德境界;人类行为若以善为内涵,体会完美的中庸之道,就能实现完满的幸福与和谐。

Eternal Kindness of Humanity--Discusss the Mean Thought Agreed in Confucius and Aristotle

Confucius was born in the year 551 B.C.in China,and Aristotle was born in 384 BCE in western country.Despite differences between them in aspects of region,country,nation,times and culture,their soul and spirit are the same.As Irving Babbit from US(one of outstanding representatives of new humanism) said,they witnessed the core that human being had experienced in normal condition.In respect of the thought of the mean,Both Confucius and Aristotle demonstrated that the mean was the highest kindness of Heaven-Man match,the best extent that everything on earth reached,and the highest moral level of mankind.As long as human being regards kindness as connotation of its behavior and experience the perfect doctrine of the mean,the perfect happiness and harmony can be fulfilled.