易宗夔《新世說．德行》探析

Analysis of Yi Zongkui‘s Xin Shishuo–Virtuous Conduct

易宗夔《新世說》是傳統帝制政體結束、民國建立後第一本面世的世說體著作，不管是在世說文學史還是民國文化史上皆有其特殊意義。易宗夔在《新世說》序言中，將臨川王之書奉為世說文學的不祧之祖，並說明自幼年起就如何深受該書影響。其書條目悉遵劉義慶《世說新語》之編類，同樣以〈德行〉為全書之首。本文將透過「道德修養工夫」、「社會倫理責任」、「人我互動技巧」這三個層面，來勾抉釐析易宗夔是如何利用典律框架，來重塑後帝制時代的理想人格典範。筆者也認為透過這三個層面的分析，不但可讓吾人管窺側身在《新世說．德行》字裡行間的思想底蘊，更可以讓我們感受身處新舊文化相激盪時代的易宗夔，是如何定位新時代知識分子的人生目標。

Yi Zongkui‘s Xin Shishuo is the first Shishuo-style work published after the end of the traditional imperial regime and the founding of the Republic of China. It has a special significance in both the reception history of Shishuo literature and the cultural history of the Republic of China. In the preface of Xin Shishuo, Yi Zongkui regarded the book of Yiqing Liu as the ancestor of Shi Shuo literature, and recounts how he had been deeply influenced by the book since he was a child. The entries of the book follow the compilation of Yiqing Liu’s Xin Shishuo Xin Yu, and also take “Virtuous Conduct” as the opening chapter of the book. This article analyzes how Yi Zongkui used the legal framework to reshape the model of personality in the post-imperial era through the by three levels. There are “moral cultivation”, “social ethical responsibility”, and “interpersonal interaction skills” model. The author also believes that through the analysis of these three levels, not only can we get a glimpse of the ideological background between the lines of Xin Shi Shuo-Virtuous Conduct, but also let us understand how Yi Zongkui, who lived in an era of turbulence between traditional and new cultures, positions the life goals of intellectuals in the new era.