外国文学教育如何加强国家意识培养?会不会危及文学自治性、学术自主性和外语学科发展?这些怀疑大概是外国文学界在相关问题上保持沉默的根本原因。然而,我们需要理解西方自治论的产生是因为其有限的国家意识限制了文学致广大的理想,而中国国家意识本身包含人类共同体意识,有着为世界谋大同的远大目标,与文学理想的无限性是一致的。所以,外国文学教育天然地包含着中国国家意识培养,在激发审美“共通感”的同时,推动美学和伦理理想的对话,寻找未来人类共同体的伦理基础,于美美与共中求大同。

How can foreign literature education impose the cultivation of Chinese national consciousness? Will it endanger literary autonomy, academic independence, and the development of foreign language disciplines? These doubts are probably the underlying reasons for the silence of the foreign literary community on the issue of national consciousness. However, we should realize that the Western autonomy theory arises because its limited national consciousness limits the ideal of literature to the vast. Chinese national consciousness, on the contrary, contains the consciousness of human community and seeks the Great Harmony of the world, which is consistent with the infinity of the literary ideal. In this regard, foreign literature teaching naturally includes the cultivation of Chinese national consciousness, because it stimulates the aesthetic sensus communis and promotes the dialogue between aesthetic and ethical ideals, searching for the ethical foundation of the future human community. In short, it seeks the Great Harmony in aesthetic appreciation.