《大学》今古本辨正

Identification and Correction of the Current and Old Editions of DA XUE

《大学》今古本的问题是宋明理学中一个极为重要的分歧,所谓程朱陆王的分歧以及阳明学与朱子学的对立,主要也就集中在对《大学》今古本的不同选择上,并且也是作为其各自不同的经典依据出现的。但由于这一分歧既非出自经典文献本身,也不像今古文经学那样存在着具体的历史缘由,而主要是由不同为学进路下的不同选择与不同诠释造成的,因而在现代学术背景下,通过对《大学》今古本的比较与古本自身义理规模的重新解读,完全可以澄清古本自身的义理结构,还古本《大学》以儒家经典的本来面目,从而发挥其在认知先秦儒学精神方面的作用。

The issue of current or old edition of Da Xue was an extraordinarily important discrepancy between neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty and that in the Ming Dynasty, which accounted for the discrepancy between Zhu, Lu and Wang and that between Wang Yangming＇ s school and Zhu Xi＇ s school. They differed in classical in- terpretation of Da Xue just by taking different editions as their theoretical bases. Their discrepancies didn＇ t result from the classic itself or from some specific historical reasons like classical classics but from different means of stud- y, different choices and different interpretations. Therefore, a comparison and re-interpretation of the current and old editions of Da Xue and the argumentation of the old edition under circumstances of modern academics can certainly clarify the argumentative structure of the old edition and reveal the true features of the old edition of Da Xue as a Confucian classic to play its proper role in recognizing Confucian soul in the pre-Qin times.