现象学视角下“情感认识论”的“现代性”意义

The significances of modernity in the sentimental epistemology from a phenomenological perspective

古典晚期的新柏拉图主义的“爱欲”可视为“情感认识论”的雏形,之后又发展出了东西方两个不同的理论。经过奥古斯丁、笛卡尔和胡塞尔的发展,西方的分枝通过对“爱欲”意义的剥离步入了现代的现象学阶段,而其保有了“爱欲”因素的东方分枝则因为历史原因未能进入现代视域之中。通过对“爱欲”的复原,对谢文郁先生提出的“情感认识论”进行现象学重构,可发现其至少有两方面的“现代性”意义:一是提示我们应当将人视为是身体的存在,而不是一个超然物外的存在;二是表明人是有限的,人对世界“全体”的理解只能依赖其自身所见的“侧现”。

The Neoplatonic Eros in the Late Antiquity can be considered as the prototype for Sentimental Epistemology and was later developed into two theoretical branches-the Western and the Eastern.The Western branch evolved by depriving the meaning of Eros through the works of Augustine,Descartes and Husserl and finally into the modern Phenomenological stage while the Eastern branch which retained the Erotic elements failed to progress into the contemporary vision for some historical reasons.By restoring the significance of Eros,we can rebuild the Sentimental Epistemology of Mr.Xie Wenyu from a Phenomenological perspective,and discover its modernity from two crucial aspects:the first one indicates that humans are all physical beings,not something beyond or supernatual;the second one states that the human nature is limited whose perception of the whole world is based only on the Abschattung of the world which has been shown showing forth to him.