一心性问题的考察,可以上溯到先秦儒学。孔子提出“性相近”之说,已涉及性的范畴。当然,在孔子那里,心性之辩尚未展开。对心性作进一步论析的,是孟子。按孟子的看法,凡人皆有四心:“恻隐之心,人皆有之;羞恶之心,人皆有之;恭敬之心,人皆有之;是非之心,人皆有之。”(《孟子·告子上》)这里所谓心,首先含有情感之义:恻隐之心大致表现为一种同情心,羞恶与恭敬分别是对自我与他 One-heart question investigation, can be traced back to pre-Qin Confucianism. Confucius proposed that “sexual similarities” should be said that the category of sexuality has been covered. Of course, in Confucius, the defense of the mind has not yet started. For further analysis of the heart is Mencius. According to Mencius’s view, mortals have four hearts: “hidden heart, everyone has it; heart of shame, everyone has; respectful heart, everyone has its own; ”(“ Mencius ”) The so-called heart, here first contains the meaning of emotion: the heart of compassion is generally manifested as a kind of compassion, shame and respect, respectively, on the self and his