华东师范大学(哲学社会科学版) ›› 2011, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (5): 22-32.

• 伦理学研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

尊重不同的生活方式:《庄子》中的道家美德伦理

黄勇   

  1. 美国库兹城大学哲学系
  • 出版日期:2011-09-15 发布日期:2011-10-12
  • 通讯作者: 黄勇
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Respecting Different Ways of Life: A Daoist Ethics of Virtue in the Zhuangzi

HUANG Yong   

  • Online:2011-09-15 Published:2011-10-12
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摘要: 《庄子》通过讲述各种不同的故事提出了一种首尾一贯的规范伦理,而这种规范伦理是一种美德伦理。在这样一种道家的美德伦理中,最重要的美德或性格特征是尊重不同的生活方式。西方各种通行的美德伦理理论从未论及这种性格特征,但它在当代全球化的多元社会生活中却极具价值。

关键词: 《庄子》, 道家美德伦理, 差异伦理

Abstract: This article attempts to explore the possibility of a virtue ethics in a tradition that has been so far largely neglected by some scholars, Chinese Daoism, by focusing on one of the most important classics in this tradition, the Zhuangzi. It argues that, contrary to a rather common misconception of it as skeptic, relativistic, and therefore empty of any guide to moral life, it presents a solid normative ethics through various stories, and this normative ethics is a virtue ethics. The most important virtue, or trait of character, in such a Daoist virtue ethics, is to show respect for different ways of life, a trait not discussed in any familiar versions of virtue ethics in the West and yet most valuable to the contemporary life in a global and pluralistic society.