中西身体观比较刍议

A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Views of Body

身体性是人类生存的一个最基本的事实,但这同一个的事实在中西文化中却表现出完全相反的观法,在此起决定作用不是被观察的事实,而是不同民族对自己的存在的不同看法与体验。本文试图从哲学上指出,正是对身体的存在论规定上的差异驱使两种文化走上不同的路向,并且由此出发才能真实衡量中西身体观差异的后果和意义。

Embodiment is a fundamental fact of human existence,but Chinese and Western cultures provide contrary explanations for the same fact.Thus,what’s decisive is not the facts observed,but the ways different peoples experience their life.The paper aims to propose that it is the ontologically different status of body that makes different cultures proceed in different directions. Only from this perspective can we appreciate what the difference between Chinese and Western views of body really means.