一、前言虽然中国儒家长期以来,就一直存在着“为往圣继绝学”的道统意识,但在当代西方各种伦理学理论的激荡下,儒家伦理学的理论性格究竟应该如何加以厘定,却反而成为众说纷纭、莫衷一是的问题。就西方而言,在十八世纪启蒙运动以后,近代伦理学主要基于人格尊严与共同福祉的道德观点,构作各自最基本的道德原则,以能对行为对错的应然判断,提供理性推理的最高逻辑前提。西方近代伦理学的这种认知主义倾向,虽然已经遭到当代新亚里士多德主义在德行伦理学或 I. Preface Although Chinese Confucianism has long been known for its morality of “devoting itself to the study of the Holy Spirit,” how should the theoretical character of Confucian ethics be determined under the agitation of various ethical theories in the West? However, it has become a question of divergent views and incomprehensible. In the West, after the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, modern ethics constructed their most basic moral principles on the basis of the moral values ​​of human dignity and common welfare, and provided rational reasoning for judging the right and wrong of behavior The highest logical premise. This cognitive tendency of Western modern ethics, though it has been exposed by contemporary Neo-Aristotelian ethics in virtue or