赫拉克利特河流比喻引发的思考

Reflections on Heraclitus' River Image

赫拉克利特现存断言残简虽然不多,但其中蕴含的思想却是许多人孜孜以求的对象,并在不同诠释的碰撞中发出新的光芒。赫拉克利特部分思想碎片的考查分析表明,国内外对他的河流比喻一直存在三种不同的理解,即我们不能踏入、可以踏入、能又不能踏入同一条河流两次。这三种理解是不同学者根据不同史料沿不同路径对赫拉克利特河流比喻进行的解读,不同解读的合理性不仅依赖对比喻本身含义的分析,也依赖于对源语言文献的考证,厘清其中的道理有助于深化我们对言说对象的变与不变的认识。

There are merely about 126 fragments of Heraclitus of Ephesus available to us nowadays, but the meanings of these fragments are still very fascinating to many scholars and glittering in the conflict of different interpretations. Investigations of the original Greek text of Heraclitus＇ four fragments show that his river image can be interpreted in three different ways： we can, we cannot, we both can and cannot step into the same river twice. They are reasonable interpretations of the meaning of his river image,but stress is being laid on different aspects. Further penetration into why these interpretations make sense contributes to a better understanding of change and non-change of particular objects of our cognition.