略论东方哲学与宗教

A Brief Discussion on Eastern Philosophy and Religion

"东方"这个概念,人们往往从地域、文化或政治等不同的角度来使用它。在不断的文明创造中,东方孕育了许多在人类历史上产生过重要影响的宗教,也创立了自己发达的哲学。世界文明是在多种文明的交互影响中发展起来的,有时甚至很难简单地把某种宗教或哲学划归为东方的还是西方的。随着"文明冲突"理论的提出以及与之相对的"文明对话"观念的大力倡导,对东方文明的研究和东西方文明关系的反思得以纳入世界文明未来前途的广阔论域加以讨论,也使得关于东方文化的研究有可能突破传统"东方学"的偏见和逻辑而获得新的意义和内涵。对于包括中国在内的东方国家和包括中国学术界在内的东方学术界来说,重视和开展对东方文化的研究,有着重要的学术价值和现实意义。

The concept of 'Orient' was usually used from different perspectives of geography, culture or politics. In continuous civilization creation, the Orient has produced many religions that have important influence in human history, and founded their own rich philosophy. The world civilization has been developed in the interaction of various civilizations, sometimes it's hard to put a religion or philosophy into eastern or western category. As the theory of 'civilizations clash' was putting forward and the concept of 'dialogue between civilizations' was vigorously advocated, the study on eastern civilization and reflection on the relationship between eastern and western civilizations were put into the vast domain of the future of world civilization to discuss, which makes the research on Oriental culture likely break the traditional prejudice and logic of 'Orientalism' and obtain new meaning and connotation. It has important academic values and realistic significance for the academia of eastern countries including Chinese academic circles to pay attention to and carry out the research of Oriental culture.