生生不已而“含情契理”——方东美的生命本体论探微

Vitalizing Endlessly with Passion and Reason——On Fang Dongmei's life ontology

在摸索如何实现中国哲学现代化的道路上,现代新儒家前三代学人大多都致意于重建形上学的努力,表现出自觉创构本体论的理论冲动和精神蕲向。作为现代新儒家之重镇,方东美没有如同其他人那样,承接宋明儒学以采取“新心学”或“新理学”的进路,而是归返于先秦原始儒家和原始道家并建立了“含情契理”的生命本体论。通过他探求“太初之指”、索寻宇宙人生之本体的过程,我们可以清楚地看到他由中入西,最后又援西归中的学思心路;同时,从中也能够见出由提出“生命”这一核心范畴,到依循“体用不二”的传统论证方式阐发其功用,以确证生命的本体论意义和地位,进而展开整个思想体系的逻辑发展进程。

On how to realize the modernization of Chinese philosophy, the former three generations of modern Neoconfucianists devoted themselves to reconstructing the metaphysics, showing self-consciousness of creating the ontology. As one of the important people of modern neo-confucianist, unlike the others who adopted the way of＂ new ideology of mind＂ and＂ new doctrine of principle＂ which was inherited from Confucianism of Song-ruing dynasty , Fang Dongmei returned to the original Confucianism and Taoism of Pre-Qin. Through his process of hunting after ＂the meaning of Taichu＂ and the noumenon of the universe and life,we can see his intention of ＂putting east into west＂ and ultimately ＂putting west into east＂ clearly. Simultaneously, we also can see the logic progress from putting forward the core concept ＂life＂, to explaining its function, furthermore eorroborating its position of ontology.