朱熹的理欲观既继承了先儒关于“理欲之辨”的思想,又适应时代的需要对其作了阐发,形成了自己独特的理欲思想。具体而言,朱熹提出了人在“明天理,去人欲”上的理性自觉,“人欲中自有个天理”,“天理人欲,同行异情”,以及“以理节欲”的修养论。朱熹的理欲观对于今天人类社会的发展具有积极的意义。
Zhu Xi’s ideas about Reason and Desire not only has inherited ideas about “Reason and Desire” of Confucianism, but also met the needs of the times and formed its own unique ideas. Specifically, Zhu Xi put forward the rational consciousness of valuing reason and getting rid of desire, and the cultivation theory of restraining desire by reason. Zhu Xi’s ideas about Reason and Desire have a posi-tive significance for the development of human society today.