我们应当如何确认自己的智性？——关于儒家生生伦理学逻辑起点的思考之一

近年来,我一直在关注“儒家生生伦理学”的建构问题。要完成这项工作,首先必须解决其逻辑起点问题。在充分借鉴笛卡尔、胡塞尔、唯识宗的智慧后,我将这个起点确定为内觉。所谓内觉简单说就是在伦理学范围内人的一种自我觉知能力。通过内觉我可以觉知到自己正在思考“我应该如何成就道德？”这个问题。根据儒家传统,这种思考的功能即为智性。有了这个发现,暂时不需要其他条件就可以证明我有智性的功能了。在“儒家生生伦理学”系统中,内觉先于智性,只有内觉才能成为这门学说可靠的逻辑起点,而不能反过来以智性自身来替代这个重要角色。这样我们便解决了这门学说的逻辑起点问题,在成功的道路上迈出了重要的一步。
Abstract：In recent years, the author has been paid attention to the construction of the “sheng-sheng” ethics of Confucianism. Its logical starting point must be located for the work. Having been enlightened by Descartes, Husserl and the Buddhist philosophy of consciousness, the author decided to set it as inner perception, which could be simply interpreted as a kind of self-consciousness in the realm of ethics. Through inner perception, we can percept that we are thinking on the problem of “how to become a moral person.” In the tradition of Confucianism, this function of thinking is regarded as intellect. Therefore, it proves that we have this function unconditionally. In the system of “sheng-sheng” ethics, inner perception is prior to intellect, and thus the logical starting point is supposed to be inner perception. The solution of the problem opens the path to the overall theoretical construction.