杨宽的墨学研究

Yang Kuan’s Studies on Mozi

杨宽的墨学研究是他史学研究中不可缺少的一部分,初入学界即从研究墨子开始,这是受到20世纪20、30年代墨学研究复兴的影响。他的墨学研究内容非常丰富,比如在对《墨子》篇章的辨伪、对墨子核心思想兼爱的理解上、对时人附会西方科学于《墨经》等论点上都能言之有据,持之有故,这些论点大部分都具有一定的合理性。而毋庸讳言的是,杨宽认为《墨经》中无数学、力学、几何学、光学以及否定名家或辩者等观点,则失之偏颇。

Yang Kuan’s studies on Mozi were an indispensable part of his historical research.He began with the study of Mozi with the revival of such researches in the 1920s and 1930s.His studies on Mozi were very rich,including the identification of the fake chapters,the understanding of Mozi’s universal love,the contemporary people’s misunderstanding of western science’s relation to The Book of Mozi,and so on.Most of his arguments were reasonable.However,Yang Kuan’s view that there were no mathematics,mechanics,geometry or optics,and his negation of logicians or debaters in The Book of Mozi was biased.