“王天下”与汉帝国

"The Feudalized Empire" and the Han Dynasty

"王天下"是周人取得克商战争胜利后创造性地提出并打造出来的一个伟大的文化理想,它在西周的宗法封建制度中得以现实化并取得第一种典型的存在形态。随着宗法封建制度的衰落和瓦解,"王天下"在春秋战国的历史运动中经历变形和转换,并在汉的中央集权的帝国制度中再次得以现实化并取得第二种典型的存在形态。以这样的历史视野,探讨汉哲学在中国哲学史上承先启后的地位,揭示汉帝国对此后长达两千余年的中国文化的范式意义,是本文提出的研究目标。

＂The Feudalized Empire＂ was a great cultural ideal creatively contributed and established by the Zhou people after their victory in the war against the Shang Dynasty. This ideal was actualized and gained its first existing form under the patriarchal system of the Zhou Dynasty. With the decline and downfall of feudal patriarchal system, the idea of ＂the Feudalized Expire＂ went through deformation and transition in the historical movements of the Warring Kingdoms ages before it was realized and gained its second typical existing form under the imperial centralistic system of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, it is the objective of this Study to explore the transitional place of the philosophy of the Han Dynasty in Chinese history of philosophy from such a historical vision to reveal the pattemized significance of the Han Dynasty to Chinese culture in approximately 2000 years that followed.