走出中西对立:对中西文化比较的几点思考

Off the Dichotomy between China and the West: Some Considerations about the Comparison of Cultures

学界许多关于中国文化、中国哲学或中国美学等的探讨,都是建立在中西对立这样一个理论预设上的。所谓中西对立,意味着三个东西:1.中西比较是比较研究的主流,甚或全部;2.中国文化和西方文化的性质必然相反;3.中国的、甚至世界的出路就在于中西融合创新。中西对立这样的思维框架只是近代历史的特定产物,并不能作为不可质询的理论前提。现在,正是我们要对这一思维模式进行反思的时候。

Most essays on Chinese culture or philosophy or aesthetics take the dichotomy between China and the West as a theoretical presupposition. This dichotomy at least means： firstly, the comparison between China and the West should be the main task or all tasks of the comparison of cultures; secondly, the nature of Chinese and Western culture should be contrary; thirdly, the mergence and creation of Chinese-Western culture should be the future of China or the world. In fact, this kind of dichotomy was the particular product of Chinese modem history and it can＇t be taken as an unquestionable presupposition. Now, it is the time for us to have deep introspection of this kind of thinking patterns.