理性与深度——20世纪以来的休谟研究述评

Reason and Profundity:A Review of Hume Studies since the Twentieth Century

休谟作为苏格兰启蒙运动的领军人物之一,他的著作内容丰富、涉及面广、影响力大。自20世纪以来,对其著作的研究达到了前所未有的高度,从单纯对其哲学、历史学、政治经济学等著作的研究走向整体性研究,并很好地将其其他著作与哲学思想形成一种相互印证与相互关照的研究范式,从而更完整地理解休谟早期哲学著作与后期历史学、政治经济学、宗教著作的统一性。而从思想史角度对其著作的研究,尤其是对其影响最大的哲学、历史学等著作的考察成为理解休谟思想的关键和核心,也是我们从当今时代发展的特点来考察18世纪历史的重要切入点。整体而言,西方世界的休谟研究已趋成熟,而中国学界的研究则处于起步阶段,因此不断融入世界、加强学术交流是促进学术发展的重要一环。

David Hume was the leadership in the Scottish Enlightenment.His writings are extremely abundant,with various subjects and tremendous influences in Great Britain and the other part of the world.Meanwhile,the academia take his writings seriously since twentieth century,and they put his writings of philosophy,history,political economics and other subjects from segmentation to a holistic research paradigm,connecting his writings and philosophical thought together,so that we can better understand Hume＇s early and later writings and thought in a unifying perspective,without the gap between time and space.In this paper,we choose to comprehend Hume＇s writings and thought from the perspective of intellectual history,that can be the key and core step for us to do it.Generally speaking,nowadays,the Hume studies in the West World are mature,but it got only in its early stage in Chinese academic circles,therefore it would be a very important step for Chinese academians to integrate into the world and strengthen mutual communication.