子学的双重视野及其对当代哲学创新的启示

The Dual Vision of Zixue and Its Implications for Contemporary Philosophical Innovation

子学是对《总目》中“子书”所包含的知识与思想内容的统称。从哲学知识论的角度看,子学其实包含着“博明万事”的知识维度和“适辨众理”“入道见志”的思想维度。子学中相对均衡的知识与思想这两个维度,一方面反映了传统学问—知识不断增长的历史状态,同时也体现了子学所具有的开放与多元的特征。当代中国哲学的创新,从根本上要与我们伟大时代的社会实践紧密相关,但其中一条可行的进路是,从传统子学知识与思想动态交互作用的历史进程中,汲取有益的精神启示,使传统具有更大的生机和活力并从中生长出新的形态来。

Zixue is the collective term for the knowledge and ideas contained in the zishu(works of non-Confucian ancient masters)”in the General Catalogue.From the point of view of philosophical knowledge,zixue in fact contains the intellectual dimension of“knowledge of all things”and the ideological dimension of“the proper discernment of all reasoning”and “the way of the sages and a statement of aspiration.”The relative balance between the two dimensions of knowledge and thought in zixue reflects,on the one hand,the historical state of the growth of traditional learning/knowledge and,at the same time,the openness and pluralism that characterize zixue.The innovation of contemporary Chinese philosophy is fundamentally related to the social practice of our great age,but one possible way forward is to draw useful spiritual inspiration from the historical process of interaction between traditional knowledge and spiritual stimulus,so that tradition can take on greater vitality and vigor and thence produce new forms.