各種美好品德充實于內(nèi)心就是美。出自《孟子·盡心下》。孟子對于美的本質(zhì)的認識，與儒家的倫理道德密切相關(guān)。在孟子的美學思想中，“美”是人格評價序列“善、信、美、大、圣、神”當中的一級?！俺鋵崱庇魇玖说赖聢A滿、和諧、完備的境界，當一個人被“善”“信”等品德充實，他必然具有強大的精神力量，而體現(xiàn)為人格之美。也可以說，美是一個人由道德倫理的自足升華為審美愉悅時的一種精神狀態(tài)，代表了道德與審美一體的儒家人格理想，體現(xiàn)了美與善的高度統(tǒng)一。體現(xiàn)在文學批評中，它主要強調(diào)作家應培養(yǎng)浩然正氣與美好品德，這樣才能創(chuàng)造出具有崇高內(nèi)在精神的作品。這一術(shù)語將內(nèi)心道德的充實與否作為衡量作品高下的重要標準，目的在于倡導道德人格與藝術(shù)審美的和諧統(tǒng)一。

Moral fulfillment of one's mind and heart means beauty in character. This term comes from the book Mencius. Mencius' understanding of beauty relates closely to Confucian morality. To his mind, beauty is one of the qualities on the rating scale for personality, which ranges from those of virtue, honorableness, beauty, magnanimity, saintliness, all the way up to the divine. Central to all these is moral fulfillment, which refers to the perfection, harmony and completeness of a person's moral well-being. When a person is enriched by virtue and honorableness, he is filled with tremendous moral strength and thus attains the beauty of personality. In other words, beauty is a spiritual state of worthiness achievable when moral self-sufficiency becomes elevated into an aesthetic ecstasy, reflecting the Confucian ideal of perfect harmony between morality and aesthetics, or that between beauty and goodness. In literary criticism, this is shown via the argument that a writer should strive to be upright before he can create noble-spirited works. This term sets moral fulfillment as an important criterion for judging the quality of a literary work, and advocates a unity between artistic excellence and moral well-being.

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◎可欲之謂善，有諸己之謂信，充實之謂美，充實而有光輝之謂大，大而化之之謂圣，圣而不可知之之謂神。（《孟子·盡心下》）

值得人們喜愛就是善，自己具備了善行就是信，各種美好品德充實于內(nèi)心就是美，充實之后又能發(fā)揚光大稱為大，既大而又能感化萬物稱為圣，圣明到了不可測的神妙境地稱為神。

A person that is lovable can be called virtuous. He who is virtuous can be described as honorable. If his soul possesses moral goodness, it also possesses beauty. If that beauty can be made to spread afar, it becomes magnanimous. If that magnanimity can spread its influence across the whole world, he attains sainthood. If such sainthood can reach immeasurable heights, then he possesses the quality of the divine. (Mencius)

◎氣以實志，志以定言；吐納英華，莫非情性。（劉勰《文心雕龍·體性》）

天生的氣質(zhì)稟賦使人具有充實的情志，情志決定文章的語言；文采的吸納與文章是否精美，全都取決于人的真情實感。

Natural inclination and character give an author an immense aspiration. This, in turn, determines the language of his writing. Literary grace and glory result solely from the author's true feelings. (Liu Xie: The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons)

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