Abstract: Confucianism, an important school of philosophyin ancient China, contains extensive knowledge and profound scholarship and radiates wide and far-reaching impact. Its fundamental spirit and value orientationcan be generalized as “the doctrine of being saintly inside and kingly outside”. This thought of Confucianism has been interpreted differently in the ancienttimes and the modern times, which involves such relationships as between internal cultivation and external utilization and between the Chinese traditional learning and the Western learning. The doctrine of “being saintly inside and kinglyoutside”as a value, its ontology is based on the ontology of “heavenly laws”and “human relations”in the heaven-man relationship, and its epistemology isbased on the thinking of inner transcendence and the view of “integrating knowledge and behaviors”.

Key words: Confucian philosophy, being saintly inside andkingly outside, value orientation, ontology epistemology

摘要： 儒家哲学是中国古代哲学的重要门派,其内容博大精深,影响广泛而久远,其基本精神和价值取向可归纳为“内圣外王之道”。对儒家“内圣外王”思想的阐释在古代和近代有所不同,涉及内修与外用、中学与西学等关系。“内圣外王”作为价值观,其本体论依据为天人关系论中的“天道”或“人道”本体论,其认识论依据为内在超越思路和“知行合一”观念。

关键词: 儒家哲学, 内圣外王, 价值取向, 本体论, 认识论