儒家哲理特征与文化间对话——普遍主义还是非普遍主义

The Philosophical Feature of Confucianism and Its Position in the Inter-Cultural Dialogue——Universalism or Non-Universalism

儒家是一种典型的非普遍主义,因为它尽管坚信自己学说是终极真理,但认为这真理与实际生活的变化过程内在相关,依靠健全的文化生态而存活,并且否认任何普遍主义的更高标准的有效性。所以,在当今的文化间交往中,儒家会主张一种真实的对话态度:既不参与任何你死我活的文明冲突,不搞普遍主义的竞赛与对抗。儒家坚持一种"允许中止交往"的对话原则,即对话的任何一方都可以随时中止可能的和现实进行着的交往,如果它感到这种交往威胁到了它的原初文化生态的话。也就是说,文化间对话必须以保障对话的任何一方的文化独特性、他者性为前提。

Confucianism is typically non-universalist. Although it confirms its doctrine is ultimate truth, it regards it as internally relevant to real lives, depending on healthy cultural ecology, denying any kind of validity of universalism as higher criterion.In today＇s cultural communication, cunfucianism holds a real attitude of dialogue, neither participate in any mortal culture clash. Confucianism insists on ＂permission to end communication＂ as principle of dialogue, namely, either side of dialogue could end possible or ongoing dialogue anytime, if it threaten its original cultural ecology. In other words, cultural dialogue holds peculiarity and otherness as presupposition.