摘要
艾兰研究中国思想史的一个重要特点,就是关注研究方法的运用。如《世袭与禅让》中,主要用列维-斯特劳斯的结构主义理论,研究中国古典文献中有关尧、舜、禹、启直至商、周王朝的建立的历史传说等。在《水之道与德之端》中,艾兰又运用西方哲学的隐喻认知理论,研究了中国早期思想史。本文以其中研究《老子》思想水的隐喻为例,说明:在基于对中国传统典籍“同情之了解”之后,恰当地运用西方的理论和方法作为叙述背景,来发掘古典文本的历史意义与现实意义,是艾兰中国哲学思想史研究的方法。
Emphasizing study method is the characteristic of Attan＇s study of Chinese thought. In The Heir and Sage, Claude Levi-Strauss＇ structuralism theory is used in understanding the early ancient documents of China, and from her late book, The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue, in which the cognitive metaphor theory is applied, we get a very different view of Chinese ancient text. Analyzing the water root metaphor in Lao Zi, Allan showed us a corr^t way of how to study Chinese thought, that is, only by deep understanding of Chinese language and culture as well as appropriate theory and method as background of narration, can we find the historic and realistic meaning of a philosophical text.
