中国老学研究的回顾与展望

Review and Prospect about Research on Laoxue in China

本文回顾了大陆、港台以及国外汉学界过去在老学研究领域所取得的主要成就,并认为未来中国老学的研究重点在于贯通性研究、思想史研究、专题研究以及老学在海外的传播与影响研究等方面。论文还指出了思想史与学术史、社会史、诠释学及多学科交叉等研究方法于老学研究的重要意义,而老学研究的旨归则在于,把中国老学的发展与中国传统文化精神的生成联系起来,从而更加深入地理解中华优秀传统文化的独特性,以提高中华民族的文化自觉与文化自信。

This paper reviews the major achievements of research on Laoxue in China's Mainland,Hong Kong,Taiwan and the field of Sinology overseas in the past.It prospects that the emphases on research on Laoxue in the future are studies about consecutiveness,intellectual history,cases and Laoxue＂s transmission and influence overseas.The paper also points out that the methodologies in intellectual and academic history,social history,hermeneutics and interdisciplinary studies have great significance to the research on Laoxue.Furthermore,the purport of the research on Laoxue is the connection between its development and the generation of the spirit of Chinese traditional culture,based on which to get a more in-depth understanding of the uniqueness of the brilliant Chinese traditional culture and to improve the nation ＇ s cultural consciousness and cultural self-confidence.