“理一分殊”与世界伦理——试论中国传统文化对“世界伦理”构想的可能贡献

“Liyi Fenshu” and the World Ethics——Comments on the Possible Contribution of Chinese Traditional Culture to Conception of “the World Ethics”

筹划实施“世界伦理计划” ,是联合国教科文组织近年来为解决全球性危机和应对全球化进程所提出的问题的积极回应 ;参与该计划的中国学者刘述先教授提出以中国传统文化中的“理一分殊”来消解客观存在着的文化差异以达成共识。但对“理一分殊”命题中的“理一” ,似不应作狭隘的理解 ,而应当深入各类文明和各种文化现象的内部探索其内在蕴藏着的深层结构 ,从结构及其功能的关系以揭明更加普遍的东西。从人的存在及其规定性出发 ,揭明以人的方式对待自己和他人以致于自己的整个外部世界 ,是每一个人正确理解和合理处理自己的全部对象性关系的基本规范 。

To lay and carry out the plan of the world ethics,it is a positive response for “the United Nations Educational, Scietific and Cultural Organization” to solve the problem of global crisis and to deal with the problem of global process.Professor Liu Shuxian, a Chinese scholar and a planner suggested that we could use the theory of “Liyi Fenshu” of Chinese traditional culture to dispel cultural and objective difference in reality in order to reach an agreement.But for “Liyi” of the theory of “Liyi Fenshu”,we should not understand it narrowly, but should probe deeply into the inner structure of all kinds of civilization and cultual phenomenon to reveal something more universal through the relations between structure and function,such as the existance and nature of human being, the way of treatment of man to himself, to others and even to the whole external world, and the relations between man himself and objects.And it is on this basic principle that the world ethics can establish.