儒家与基督教创造力观念之比较

A Comparison of Confucian and Christian Conceptions of Creativity

要虔诚且充分地比较儒家和基督教的创造力观念,必先有一些合适的可比范畴。大致说来,为了解儒家和基督教之创造力观念如何不同,需要知道什么是创造力,二者相似或相异又在何处。因此首要之务即在可比的情形下提出一个稍嫌简略的创造力理论。无论在西方还是在东亚,创造力都是一个复杂的概念。我们可以通过一与多和变化之本性这两个哲学问题来揭示其复杂性。

In order respectfully and adequately to compare Conlucian and Chrlstian conceptxons of creauvity, it is necessary to have proper comparative categories. Put roughly, we need to know what creativity is in order to see how Confucianism and Christianity have various versions of it. In respect of what do they agree or differ？ So the first order of business is to put forward, however briefly, a theory of creativity in light of which comparisons can be made. Creativity, of course, is a very complicated notion in the West and in EastAsia. Two philosophical topics can reveal something of its complication： the problem of the one and the many, and the nature of change.