重新读解人文理论经典:必要性及其仁学前提

The Necessity of Rereading Humanistic Classics and the Ren-Ethics as the Related Prerequisite

中外传统人文科学、社会科学和自然科学具有本质性区别。认真研习西方现代人文社会科学理论即为革新人文学科的必要途径。掌握西方理论应分为三个读解及诠释阶段:理解、解释和运用,后二者要求中国学者要采取高度的主动性和创造性态度,这样的治学态度主要来自传统的仁学精神。仁学理性实为英国经验主义、德国逻辑主义和法国实证主义之外的第四类人类伦理学理性类型。如无此仁学理性的指导,则前三种理性类型就难以在人文科学理论的现代化发展中加以充分贯彻。今日西方的科学理性精神亟需主体伦理学的引领,如此始能在人文科学理论现代化的革新与实践中充分发挥其科学理性的导航作用。

At present, human sciences requires a scientific modernization in comparison with natural and social sciences. The first step of the modernization of Chinese human sciences lies in seriously learning from modern western social and human sciences. For this purpose Chinese human sciences should follow the three different stages in dealing with the western humanistic classics： Honestly grasping of the meaning of original texts; Rereading of original texts through the interdisciplinary strategy; Revaluation of original texts in cross-cultural contexts. For the sake of carrying out studies of western human-scientific theories in such a reconstructive way, it requires the spiritual guidance of the traditional Ren-ethics for Chinese scholars, which is stated as a basic type of human rationality in coordination with the basic type from German or, French and English traditions. In general, considering the crisis of the present-day human sciences, the above western basic rational traditions even also need a subjective-ethical guidance which could be provided by the traditional Chinese Ren-ethics, because the latter can help shape the correct attitude towards truth rather than benefit in its scientific practice.