世界的始终与人性之日生日成——王船山“天地之始终今日是”的哲学蕴含

The Interplay Between the Beginning and End of the World and Human——The Philosophical Meaning of Wang Chuanshan's View of "Heaven and Earth Beginning with Today"

世界的开端与终结问题是困惑着人类的一个古老的哲学问题,王船山对于这个问题作出了独特的回答,这就是:天地之始今日是,天地之终今日是。也就是说,世界的开始与终结都发生在现在。这一回答的实质是,把世界的始终问题从天地本身的问题那里解放出来,而还原为人自身的问题,这样,问题就具有了与人自身存在相关的视域。从主体的始终来理解天地之始终,这就是把人的在世活动以及人的成长看作与世界的交互作用,视为在当前活动中与不可见的世界总体的沟通过程。这样,在主体的参与中,世界的始终就成为主体通过自身的活动揭示存在的过程,也就是主体之性日生日成的过程。

The beginning and the end of the world is an old unsolved philosophical issue besetting human being. Wang Chuanshas provided a different answer. That is： heaven and earth begin with today and end with today. In other words, the beginning and end of the world occur at present time. This answer in fact has freed the issue of the beginning and end of the world from the world itself, and by restoring it as a human issue, relates it to the existence of human itself so as to interpret the beginning and end of heaven and earth from human perspective. According to this view, human＇s earthly activities and growing process are regarded as a process of interplay and an invisible communication with the world. Due to the participation of the subject; the beginning and end of the world become a continuing process of the subject revealing being through its own activities.