比较文明学的当代形态及研究实践

The Modern Morphemes and Academic Practices of Comparative Civilizations Study

比较文明研究是全球化时代的一种新兴的研究方向与学科,它对于理解当代世界多元文化共存的局面有重要意义,所以受到国际学术界的高度重视;文明与文化概念之间存在着差异与同一关系;比较文明学具有学科建设的方法论意义,比较文明研究的语境受到世界各民族文明之间关系不同历史阶段的影响;国内文明比较研究已经具备创建新学科与理论形态的条件;综合世界比较文明研究的主要模式,中国比较文明研究理论可以将世界文明分为八大文明体系,从文明认识论、本体论、方法论与实践论等层次进行理论建构。

As a new direction and discipline, the study of comparative civilizations is attracting more and more attention from domestic and international academic circles in the times of Globalization. It offers a great significance to the idea of co existence of multi-culture and pluralism of today＇s world. The analysis of the categories of ＂civilization＂ and ＂culture＂ focuses on the relationship between difference and identity. Comparative study became the method of the study, the context of comparative civilizations study also depends on the changes of historical relation among nations of the world. The maturity of the domestic comparative civilizations study have endowed with the capability to bring up new academic study and theoretical ideology. Based on the main models of international comparative civilizations study, the theory of comparative civilizations in China divids the world civilizations into eight systems, presenting in the aspects of civilization epistemology,ontology, methodology and practice.