知识的最高境界——方东美对《肇论》的哲学诠释

The Highest State of Knowledge—Fang Dongmei's Philosophical Interpretation of Chao-Lun

方东美是一位原创性的哲学家,晚年很重视佛学研究,对僧肇评价颇高。方东美运用西方现代哲学方法,通过中西思想的融汇,对《肇论》进行创造性的诠释与重构。方东美把庄子和般若经作为《肇论》生成的两个思想基础,认为物不迁就是永恒哲学,空的本质就是真空妙有;把《般若无知论》作为《肇论》的核心,认为其构造了一个解释智慧本性的原理体系;认为般若不是一般知识,而是知识所能够达到的最高境界。

Fang Dongmei is an original philosopher, who attached great importance to Buddhist Studies in his old age, and had a very high evaluation of the Seng Chao. He made a creative interpretation and reconstruction of Chao Lun through the use of modern western philosophy method by integrating Chinese and Western thoughts. He took Chuang-tzu and Prajnaparamita as 'two ideological basis of Chao Lun',thought that things are not moving is the eternal philosophy and the nature of emptiness is emptiness. He considered the 'intelligence ignorance theory' as the core idea in Chao Lun, which constructs the principle system in explaining the nature of wisdom. He put forward that wisdom is not general knowledge, but the highest realm it can aspire to.