中西史学比较得以可能的诠释与再诠释

Interpretation and Re-interpretation of the Feasibility of Chinese-European History Comparison

时空距离是历史学本身的内在矛盾,更是中西史学比较成为可能的难题之一。哲学诠释学的相互理解和历史效果意识观念,赋予了时间距离作为历史研究和比较的前提条件这一新的重要意义,对深化时空间距的理解具有积极意义。同时,哲学诠释学的观念和方法也表现出通过弱化空间距离,将空间距离消融于时间观念中,以解决时空矛盾的弱点,并最终导致某些相对主义的趋向。因此,运用现代哲学理论和历史理论对诠释学的时空距离理论进行再诠释,使时空两者在真实的对立的基础上又有机地统一起来,最终统一于现实可靠的社会历史发展变化的进程中,这对于丰富和完善中西史学比较的理论方法体系具有积极意义。

Temporal and spatial distance is an internal contradiction of history itself and also one of the problems which hinder the feasibility of Chinese-European history comparison.The perceptions of mutual understanding and historical effects in philosophic hermeneutics define temporal distance as a prerequisite of historical study and comparison,offering a new significant notion to an active comprehension of temporal and spatial distance.Meanwhile,the idea and means of philosophic hermeneutics incorporate spatial distance into temporal notion by desalting the former to solve the contradiction between time and space,which is a weak point in it and may lead to some relativistic tendency.Therefore,it is absolutely necessary to re-interpret the temporal-spatial notion of hermeneutics by means of modern philosophic and historical theories.This will organically unify the notions of time and space which stand polar apart in reality and finally make them agree in a reality-dependent course of development and change of social history.The above approach is of active significance to enriching and perfecting the theoretical methodology of Chinese-European history comparison.