物性与礼性:列维纳斯与儒家的礼物观念对照

Thing-ness and Ritual-ness:A Comparison of Idea of Gift between Levinas and Confucian

我们选取"礼"、"礼物"的概念,试图说明对于列维纳斯和儒家而言,伦理学或道德学的首要地位让他们都将礼、礼物描述得兼具"物性"和"礼性";同时,由于礼和礼物本身的意义,又让其在双方的伦理主体确立过程中占据重要地位。当然,我们认为,双方在这一问题上可能的分歧点在于,相对于列维纳斯近乎神学意义上的无限责任,儒家在礼、礼物中找到了一种更生活化的伦理向度。

We choose concepts such astitual. ~ift＇to indicate, for Levinas and Confucianism, the primacy of ethics or moral philosophyin philos- ophy make such concepts full of thing - ness＇and ritual -ness. at the same time, because of the significance of the gift and the ritual, these concepts play very important roles in the constructing ofethical subject in both Levinas and Confucianism. Of course, we believe there aresome difference for both of them ： comparing with the infinite responsibility in Levinas, the Confucianism ethics is more close to the real life in ritual and gift.