《中国传统文化关键字》泛爱

泛爱

Broad Love Extending to All

广泛地爱。在语义学层面,它与“博爱”相同;但在思想史层面,“博爱”通常指爰所有人,而“泛爱”则既指爱所有的人,也指爱一切事物,与孟子的“仁民爱物”、张载的“民胞物与”异曲同工。

On the semantic level, fan'ai (泛爱),like the term bo'ai (博爱),means a broad love that extends to all. However, in the history of Chinese thought, it has been used with a different connotation:while bo'ai generally suggests "love of all human beings," fan'ai infers "love of all humans as well as all things". It means the same as what Mencius advocated that men of virtue should love others and treasure everything on earth, and what Zhang Zai proposed that all people are brothers and sisters, and all things are companions.

来源:翻译大王


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