牟宗三《历史哲学》的文化生命探源

An Exploration of Cultural Life in Mou Zong-san’s Philosophy of History

心灵即生命,是中国传统文化生命的精神特质与现实表征的根本理据,异于西方现代文化生命的自然特性与逻辑构造的认知判断,它以人文的道德理性开显其综合的尽理精神,圆成仁智全体。此理据,由老子有无相生恒道推得。此道蕴涵一切生命同化与异化的本能,整体展现各种造化与转化的功德,全面融贯万物自然的宇宙生命的本真存在与实质引领,正当涵养人类自觉的文化生命的内心良知与身外事业。

That soul is life is the fundamental reason for the spiritual qualities and realistic representation of cultural life of Chinese tradition. It is different from the cognitive judgment of natural characteristics and logic constructions of Western modern cultural life. Furthermore,it has made better use of humanistic moral rational of displaying synthesized whole-reasonable spirit and rounding into benevolence-knowledge system. This reason could be derived from Lao Zi’s Dao in that the being and non-being generate each other. Dao should either implicate all life instincts of assimilation and dissimilation or entirely show whole merits of creation and conversion. It could not only fully integrate into real existence and substantive leadership of the universal life,but also suitably conserve inner conscience and external business of the cultural life.