玄珠喻与太阳喻:象思维和相思维之源

Metaphor of Black Pearl and Metaphor of Sun:Source of Thinking Mode from Image or Idea

庄子的玄珠喻与柏拉图的太阳喻都是在人类早期的文明源头以譬喻的形式对形而上学的本源所作的探究。通过对言辞辩论、机智、感官等认识方式的考察,他们认为这些不能够达到最高的道。由于思维方式和文化传统的差异,他们对于理性、物象、譬喻等存在着不同的理解。出于对感性事物的排斥和对以逻各斯为代表的辩证方法的推崇,从柏拉图开始,西方哲学逐渐走上理念思维或者说相思维的理性思维道路,而中国哲学则因为"尚象"的传统,逐渐走向以象思维为中心的诗性思维道路。

The metaphor of black pearl and metaphor of sun are explorations of metaphysical origin through metaphor in early human civilization. By examining the method of cognition such as rhetoric debate, reason and sensation, they are aware that these methods cant achieve the highest metaphysical Tao. As the differences of mode of thinking and cultural tradition, there are differ- ent interpretations of rationality, images, metaphor. From Plato, Western Philosophy gradually embarked on direction toward conceptual thinking and rational thinking, through respecting the dialectical method as the center of logos and excluding the sensational things. Out of respect for to the images in Chinese tradition, Chinese philosophy gradually moved toward another route： the imageeentric poetic thinking.