学术断想

Academic Thought Fragments

学术生于自然,但超越自然。学术活动的第一步是要找到与自己的研究活动有直接关系的一系列基本概念,并把这些概念按照一定的形式组织在一起。学术只能是创造的,而不能是因袭的。对于一个学者,诚实较之才华更加重要。学术研究常常表现为用一些常识颠覆另外一些常识。在学术研究中,没有脱离开思辨的“事实”,也没有脱离开“事实”的思辨。学术首先是对自己心灵的表现。“学术人格”是宁可不说,也不说对自己假想中的读者无益的话——为自己的读者负责。任何一个学术文本都是对已有知识的重构。假若连我们自己都把学术当作敲开权力和金钱大门的敲门砖,当成一种“身外之物”,我们又将学术发展的希望寄于谁人之身呢?学术的创新不是打倒对方,而是为自己找到发展的空间。任何一个学术框架都不能只有两个对立的基本概念,至少要有三个。凡事总须研究,方能明白。

Academic learning comes from nature and surpasses it. The first step of academic activities is to find a series of basic concepts related to one' s own research and organized them in a certain form. Learning is not copying, but creating. Honesty is more important than talents for a scholar. In academic learning, some common sense is often used to subvert some other common sense. There is no 'fact' without mental analysis and vice versa. Learning is first the representation of one s soul. Academic personality means one would rather say nothing than say anything useless to his target readers, as his responsibility has it so. Any academic text is a reconstruction of his acquired knowledge. Suppose we regard learning as a stepping stone to power and wealth and a kind of external thing outside our bodies , on whom can we place the hope for academic development? Academic innovation is not to overthrow one s opponents, but to seek space for one' s own development. Within any academic frame, that are at least three basic opposite concepts instead of two. Things can only be made clear through research.