叶适讲学大旨略论

On YE Shi's Academic Principle

基于事功之学的立场,叶适揭明讲学大旨,以为儒家道统由尧舜发其端,至孔子而完备,其意蕴是人事与天行相合,体现在现实政治上则是道德义理与治教名物相统一。以此为据,叶适提出道无所谓三代与汉唐之分,而是贯穿于历史的全部过程。叶适关于道的具体看法及对于道学的批评,也都与其讲学大旨一脉相承。

YE Shi, illuminating the academic principle according to his study of the enterprise and success, thought that Confucian orthodoxy originating from Yao, Shun and achieving the perfection due to Confucius was embodied in the harmony between the human affairs and the nature and manifested in the unity of the ethical theory and politics, civilization, systems and things. YE Sift expounded that Dao went through the whole historical process, without the difference between Dao of Three Dynasties and that of Han- Tang Dynasties. YE Shi＇ s detailed thoughts on Dao and his criticism of Daoism conformed to his academic principle.