“理性传承”:从中世纪到启蒙运动

“Inheritance of Rationality”: From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

启蒙思想家以"理性"来标榜自身,将中世纪描述为一个"落后、愚昧和迷信的时代".是否可以就此推断中世纪就是一个"非理性"的时代呢?中世纪到启蒙时代"理性"是否得到了传承呢?文章试图从"理性"内涵界定、中世纪的"理性观"的解析以及启蒙运动时期"中世纪观"和"理性观"的阐释三个层面,对从中世纪到启蒙运动的"理性传承"进行探寻和解读.

The Enlightenment thinkers branded themselves“rationality”and described the Middle Ages as“backward, ignorant and superstitious”. Can the Middle Ages be inferred to be an age of irrationality? Was“rationality”passed on from the Middle Ages to the age of Enlightenment? This paper attempts to explore and interpret the“inheritance of rationality”from the Middle Ages to the enlightenment from three aspects: the definition of the connotation of“rationality”;the analysis of the“view of rationality”in the Middle Ages;the interpretation of the“view of Middle Ages”and“view of rationality”in the Enlightenment.