《易经》与西方传统危机

The Yijing and the Crisis of Western Tradition

《易经》在中西跨文化交流中起到独特而重要的作用,但同时面临许多问题。被作为理解中国传统哲学的工具传入西方,《易经》受到了西方数学家、哲学家、教会学者和物理学家等的关注,并对其进行了不同的阐释和改造。在过去的几十年里,从陌生又神秘的文本,一个未知的外国传统,到对20世纪陷入危机的西方传统的重要修正,再到成为全球文化产业,西方对《易经》的接受经历了重大变化。《易经》给大家的启示是:矛盾双方是互补的,一切事物都在变化。《易经》对西方理解中国哲学传统发挥了重要作用,这样的作用将继续延续。

The Yijing plays a unique and important role in the cross-cultural communication between China and the West,but it also faces many problems.Introduced to the West as a tool for understanding traditional Chinese philosophy,The Yijing has attracted the attention of Western mathematicians,philosophers,church scholars,and physicists,who have carried out different interpretations and transformations.In the past few decades,from an unfamiliar and mysterious text,an unknown foreign tradition,to the important amendment of the Western tradition that was in crisis in the20 th century,and then to becoming a global cultural industry.The acceptance of The Yijing in the West has undergone major changes.The enlightenment of The Yijing is that the two contradictions are complementary,and everything is changing.The Yijing has played an important role in understanding the Chinese philosophical tradition in the West,and this effect will continue.