萧萐父的“早期启蒙说”与“新人学”的哲学观申论

A Philosophical Re-examination of Xiao Jiefu's Thesis of the Early Chinese Enlightenment and New Humanistic Study

萧萐父的“早期启蒙说”在思想来源处继承了侯外庐的思想,但其“早期启蒙说”中蕴涵着对启蒙理性与现代性所衍生的弊端的反思,则可以说是超越侯先生“早期启蒙说”的新意之所在。萧萐父晚年试图以自己所建构的“诗化哲学”形式来超越西方哲学在中世纪所具有的宗教迷狂和现代实证主义的狭隘,凸显中国哲学的主体性,其“早期启蒙说”所蕴涵的对人的全面性的追求,以及其所提出的“哲学即人学”的哲学观,对于当代中国的现代化和中国哲学主体性之追求,均具有思想的启迪意义。

Xiao Jiefu's thesis of the early Chinese Enlightenment was influenced by Hou Wailu,but Xiao went beyond Hou's theory by reflecting on the drawbacks of Enlightenment reason and modernity.In his twilight years,Xiao aimed to transcend the medieval religious fanaticism and modern empirical narrow-mindedness of Western philosophy by developing a poetic philosophy that could highlight the subjectivity of Chinese philosophy.Xiao's pursuit of all-around humanity in his thesis of the early Chinese Enlightenment and his philosophical view that“philosophy is precisely a humanistic study”are inspiring for today's Chinese modernization and the search for the subjectivity of Chinese philosophy.