活着的中国哲学

Living Chinese Philosophy

本文标题"活着的中国哲学"具有双重含义。一方面,说明中国哲学可以让研究者发生转变;另一方面,也揭示出中国哲学的传统——把日常事务当作哲学思考的源泉和得出结论的保证。文本典籍不仅提供思考哲学问题所需的词汇,更重要的是鼓励个人修身养性,让人生变得有意义,化平凡为神奇。

The title of this essay, ＂Living Chinese Philosophy＂ is a double entendre that captures the transformative nature of Chinese philosophy for those who study it, and the fact that it is a philosophical tradition taking the ordinary affairs of the day as both source of philosophical reflection and warrant for the conclusions reached. The goal of the canonical texts is not only to provide a vocabulary for thinking cogently about philosophical issues, but more importantly to encourage a personal cultivation directed at making one＇s life signii cant and transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary.