建构当代中国哲学所面对的文化传统与外来挑战

The Cultural Tradition and Foreign Challenges Faced by the Establishing of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy

要想建构一种既适应时代要求、又符合中国国情的哲学新形态,首先必须深刻地反思自身固有的思想传统和外来文化的现实挑战。我们所面对的思想传统主要有马克思主义和中国儒家思想二者,前者由于政治意识形态化的影响,逐渐丧失了对于现实社会的批判功能;后者则在当今时代风雨飘零的情况下急于复兴重建,却缺乏一种真正的自我批判精神。如何确立起一种批判意识尤其是自我批判意识,将成为马克思主义中国化和儒家思想现代化的共同关键所在。另一方面,西方后现代文化在中国的长驱直入,以及基督教信仰在中国的迅猛发展,对于信仰缺失的当代中国人无疑构成了一种现实的挑战,如何应对这种现实的挑战,显然也成为建构当代中国哲学新形态的重要问题之一。

To set up a new form of philosophy, adaptable to both the requirement of the times and the Chinese context, it is first of all, to deeply reflect on the practical challenges of the innate ideological tradition and foreign cultures. The tradition we have to face is Marxism and Chinese Confucianism. The former, has gradually lost its function of criticizing the practical reality due to its political and ideological influence while the latter lacks a real spirit of self-criticism as it is overanxious for its rejuvenation and rebuilding in its contemporary tottering context. How to form an awareness of eritieism and self-criticism will be a key both to having Marxism Sinonized and Confucianism modernized. On the other hand, the facts that the post-modernistic culture of the West is driving straight in and that the folk beliefs in Christianity are swiftly weeping have constituted a practical challenge for the contemporary Chinese people lacking in religious belief. How to face this challenge, obviously has been one of the important issues of setting up a new form of philosophy in contemporary China.