孟子“浩然之气”思想浅谈

摘要

Mencius, as the successor of Confucius, is the outstanding representative figure of the Confucian school. The quality of righteousness is the supreme pursuit of human beings' cultivation of moral spirit and moral purpose. This paper generalizes the development of Mencius' righteousness theory and detailedly illustrates it in such aspects as its content, approach of cultivation, and some related phenomena of western culture.At last this paper discusses its meaning combined with the history of Chinese Philosophy.%孟子是继孔子之后战国时期儒家杰出的代表人物，“浩然之气”是他道德意志和道德目标修养的最高境界。简要概述了孟子“养浩然之气”思想的形成，对其内容性质、修养方法以及西方文化中的有关现象进行了大致讨论，最终回归中国哲学史，对其意义进行了阐发。