再论李贽《答耿司寇》的文献问题

Revisiting the Revisions of Li Zhi's Reply to Geng Sikou

《答耿司寇》是李贽与耿定向进行思想论争的重要书信,李贽对它作过两次修改。第一次修改,将七封信合并为一封信,刊于初刻《焚书》。第二次修改,删去此信约三分之一文字,刊于后来重刻的《焚书》。关于第一次修改及其原因,我已有专文探讨。本文在此基础上探讨第二次修改的原因。李贽作第二次修改的背景,是他与耿定向的紧张关系出现了缓和。这次修改,保留了《答耿司寇》根本的思想内涵,删掉了措辞最为激烈、涉及耿定向个人品格及其家族人事的第六封信,体现了李贽既基本保持自己一贯思想,又认可与耿定向和解的意愿。《答耿司寇》之外,《焚书》其他某些篇幅也有复杂的修改情况,《答耿司寇》的修改,恰可用作考察《焚书》文本变动之参考。

Reply to Geng Sikou ,a collection of important letters written by Li Zhi to Geng Ding-xiang for ideological debate,was revised twice by Li Zhi.The first revision was made into one lengthy letter by combining the seven letters together and collected into his monograph Fen Shu (the 1 st Edition).The second revision,after a deletion of one third of contents,was collected into the second edition of the Feng Shu .As the study of the first revision including the reasons behind it was published in the author's another article,here the reasons of revision for the second revision are explored.The second revision took place in the background when the strained relationship between Li and Geng relaxed.Therefore,the fundamental ideas in the first revision were still kept while the sixth letter which was the harshest one and criticized Geng's personal integrity and his family affairs was deleted.The second revision reflects Li's tendency of adhering to his own ideas and his willingness to reconciliate with Geng.Asother articles in Fen Shu also witnessed complicated modifications,the study of the revision of the Reply to Geng Sikou can work as an important reference for the research of the revision of Fen Shu as a whole.