历史性与目的论--论《几何学的起源》中的“原初创建”

Historicity and Teleology--on the‘Original Creation’in The Origin of Geometry

《几何学的起源》是探索胡塞尔晚期思想的重要文本之一,考察几何学原初意义的生成与流传是其核心主题。胡塞尔认为原初意义的持存是几何学在历史中得以可能的根本保证,而意义的“原初创建”既包含日生日成,又具有一种内在目的论的指引。因而,理解这一“具体的普遍性”将会揭示出几何学如何以原初意义继续有效,并且在新的形态中仍然是“这唯一的”几何学的全部秘密。同时,胡塞尔借助对几何学的考察,进一步对“历史性”、“目的论”以及“生活世界”等概念进行了现象学的澄清,从而凸显现象学在赋予人类历史以统一性的重要性。

The Origin of Geometry is one of the important texts to explore Husserl’s late thought,and its core theme is to investigate the generation and spread of the original meaning of geometry?Husserl thought that the preservation of the original meaning is the fundamental guarantee of the possibility of geometry in history,and the“original creation”of meaning contains both the gradual generation and the guidance of an internal teleology?Thus,how this“concrete universality”is to be understood will reveal that geometry continues to be valid in its original sense and remains in its new forms the whole secret of“this only one”geometry?At the same time,Husserl further clarified the concepts of“historicity”,“teleology”and“life-world”by means of the investigation of geometry,thus highlighting the importance of phenomenology in giving the unity of human history?