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虽然同为儒家,但在精神和理论形态上,荀子的伦理学与孔、孟尤其是孟子的伦理学确然是有所不同的。如果说孟子的伦理学是以义务或要求为特征的,那么在荀子,他的伦理学则是以欲望及其实现为特征。在这种伦理观念体系里,道德不是目的,而是实现欲望或利益的条件和规律;道德的任务不是达成某种崇高的境界,而是建立一种共同生活的秩序以代替相互间的冲突和斗争。这样一种道德看起来似乎并不那么崇高和伟大,但我们人类的生活需要它。
Although the same as Confucianism, the ethics of Xunzi and Confucius and Mencius, especially Mencius ethics, are certainly different in spirit and theoretical form. If Mencius ethics is characterized by obligations or demands, then in Xunzi, his ethics is characterized by desire and its realization. In such a system of ethical ideas, morality is not an end but a condition and law for the realization of desire or interest. The task of morality is not to reach a lofty realm but to establish a common life order instead of mutual conflicts and struggle. Such a morality may not seem so noble and great, but our human life needs it.