格己致知——从德国哲学论哲学之为“知己”的科学

Philosophy As the Science of“Self-knowing”:from the Viewpoint of German Philosophy

在欧洲哲学的传统里,从苏格拉底开始,"认识你自己"就不只限于从道德修养方面去理解。"认识你自己"不仅仅是"人贵有自知之明"的意思,欧洲哲学由此开出了一个大传统,到黑格尔总其成,欧洲哲学成为"‘知己’之学"。现当代哲学,尤其是现象学系统,从海德格尔到列维纳斯,皆不失"认识你自己-知己"这个欧洲哲学的传统。

In European philosophical tradition, when Socrates stressed on ＂ to know yourself＂ , he did not mean to understand it merely from the viewpoint of morality. That ＂to know yourself＂ was more than ＂to have the wisdom of self-knowledge＂, opened the way of the great tradition of European philosophy, which completed itself in Hegel. European philosophy became a science of self-knowing. Modern philosophies, especially the school of phenomenology, from Heidegger to Levinas, were all included in such a tradition of ＂to know yourself