王通践行“以行观文”的伦理学批评方法，提出了“文必贯道”的伦理学批评命题，极为重视作家的道德品行和作品的伦理价值。虽然此种批评方法有忽视文学的审美价值之嫌，但却是对儒家伦理学批评传统的继承，也具有重要的当下性意义。王通的这种伦理学批评是为实现其“王道”理想服务的，对其弟子门人及唐代政治文化建设，对其孙王勃的文学革新及文艺思想，对古文运动及宋明理学等都产生了深远的影响。在以伦理政教为中心的文学思想发展史上，王通的文学伦理学批评起到了上承秦汉、下开唐宋的历史作用。%WANG Tong, a famous Confucian in late Sui Dynasty, implements commenting literary works through the author’s morality, and puts forward the idea that the ethical concept of Confucian-ism must be concentrated in literary works. He attaches great importance to the author’s moral char-acter and the ethical values of literary works. Although this kind of literary criticism neglects the aes-thetic value of literature, it inherits traditional Confucian ethical criticism with the important signifi-cance of the moment of late Sui Dynasty. The ethical criticism, by which WANG Tong wants to re-store the ideal of the Confucianism, has important impacts on his disciples and the construction of the political culture of Tang Dynasty as well as his grandson, WANG Bo’s literary innovation and thought, and classical prose movement. WANG Tong’s ethical literary criticism plays an important role in starting a new trend in writing in Tang and Song Dynasties during the development of liter-ary thought which regards ethics as the core.
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