格物:生存处境之解蔽

Gewu:The Deconstruction of Living Situation

我们生活在一个科技发达的时代,在大部分时候,网络构成了我们的公共生活场域。公共生活本质上是人与人之间的交往行动,因而也是伦理的生活。在新冠肺炎疫情期间,巨大的生存危机开始让人们意识到应当将整个群体纳入自己的关心范围并为此而行动,却往往演变为一种充满焦虑与彷徨氛围的集体混沌。此种生存问题指向了我们与真实生存处境之间的遮蔽。如何解蔽是从古至今哲学家们所致思的重要问题,而朱子哲学中的“格物”工夫便是其中一个可能的答案。它让人处于对事物不断敞开的状态,通过对“理”的把握去发现自我本性与生存真相,从而指明了一条人与生存处境之间和谐关系的可能道路。

We live in an era of advanced science and technology.Most of the time,the network constitutes our public life field.Public life is essentially the communication between people,so it is also an ethical life.During the COVID-19 epidemic,the huge survival crisis began to make people realize that the whole group should be brought into their own concern and act for it,but it often evolved into a collective chaos full of anxiety and hesitation.This kind of survival problem points to the shade between us and the real living situation.How to deconstruct is an important question that philosophers have been thinking about since ancient times,and one of the possible answers is the work of"Gewu"in Zhu Zi's philosophy.It makes people in a state of constantly opening to things,and finds out their own nature and the truth of living existence through the grasp of"reason",thus pointing out a possible way of harmonious relationship between human and living situation.