先秦儒家智慧观念初探

The Development of the Pre - Qin Confucian Idea of Wisdom

哲学不仅追求智慧,而且要对智慧本身加以反思。在中、西哲学的早期发展阶段,对智慧的追求和反思已有了明显的差异。从比较的角度看,孔子开创的儒家经孟子、荀子的发展,围绕着仁知、知智关系,多方面拓展了智慧观念的内涵,并贯注了人文意识和伦理精神,从而体现了先秦儒家人文智慧的民族特色和历史价值。

. Philosophy not only pursues wisdom, but also should take wisdom itself as a question into account. From their childhood forwards Chinese and Western philosophies had already some distinctly different understandings of wisdom. The philosophical idea of wisdom possessed by the Confucian School founded by Confucius was imbued with a striking humane characteristic. Around the relationships between humanity and wisdom, and between knowledge and wisdom, Mencius and Xun Zi, after Confucius, developed the pre - Qin Confucian idea of wisdom in different directions respectively.