中国的互系性思维:通变

Chinese Correlative Thinking:Tongbian

对照西方形而上学本体论和宇宙论思想体系 ,可以得出中国传统的思维方式基本上是一种互系性思维方式。从《易经》可以找到“通变”这一互系思维的关键性观念。它区别于西方主流思维的突出特点是以偶对性为核心的宇宙本身互动连续观 ;这对西方由先验论和二元主义导致的两极概念不可解决的矛盾冲突思维 ,构成一种不可比拟的参照结构。以“通变”作为特点的互系思维凝聚为中国主要思想流派的方式而且溶化于民间文化。 2 0世纪它是解读西方“辩证法”的框架 。

Tongbian is a clear style of 'thought'(or philosophy),which is distinctly Chinese. It can be addressed on the basis of a set of characteristics that outline the parameters of a natural worldview in Chinese tradition. Seen in Tongbian, the world is one of correlations and Ziran (self-so-ing), or one of continuity through change. The nucleus, or the most salient feature, of tongbian is that, it is not God or any kind of essentialist principles, but the complementary and contradictory interactions of the two basic elements of a polarity like yin-yang that constitute the forces, and produce change. The informed perspective presented here may rouse a sensitivity to the fundamental issues that cosmological assumptions of the Western tradition has led to the differences from tongbian, which has developed from a culture and tradition that cannot be understood fully in terms of Western categories, and which, as a modality of correlative thinking, precluded the dichotomy and the like difficulties that have attended dualisms and causal thinking in the Western tradition.