再次遇到王船山——兼评程志华教授《宋明儒学之重构》

Revisiting Wang Chuanshan:Comment on Professor Cheng Zhihua’s Reconstruction of Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism

程志华教授新著《宋明儒学之重构——王船山哲学文本的诠释》在四个方面颇有新意。就本体论讲,作者以“太极”作为王船山哲学本体,以“太虚”“天”“太和”“道”作为“太极”不同角度之言说;就历史哲学讲,作者以“进化”为基底,以“循环”为开展,提出王船山持“基于‘演化’的循环历史观”;就儒学史定位讲,作者基于“三期说”给出王船山哲学乃对原始儒学之“正”、宋明儒学之“反”而明末清初儒学之“合”的定位;就研究方法讲,作者探讨了“内在诠释”及哲学诠释的“道”和“术”,体现出强烈的方法自觉。这些方面对于王船山哲学的进一步开展具有启发意义。

Professor Cheng Zhihua’s new work,Reconstruction of Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism,is quite in-novative in the following four aspects.In terms of ontology,the author takes“Taiji”as the philosophical substance of Wang Chuanshan,and“Taixu”,“Tian”,“Taihe”and“Dao”as the different perspectives of“Taiji”.In terms of historical philosophy,the author takes“evolution”as the basis and“circulation”as the development,and puts forward Wang Chuanshan’s cyclical historical view based on“evolution”;On the ori-entation of the history of Confucianism,based on the theory of“three periods”,the author orients that Wang Chuanshan’s philosophy is positive to the original Confucianism,while negative to the Confucianism of the Song-Ming Dynasties and the“harmony”of the Confucianism of late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty.In terms of research methodology,the author investigates the“inner interpretation”and the“Dao”and“Shu”of philosophical interpretation,reflecting a strong sense of methodological consciousness.These as-pects are of enlightening significance to the further development of Wang Chuanshan’s philosophy.