哲学与死亡

Philosophy and Death

哲学历来处于危险的境地,这意味着哲学本身时时面临死亡的威胁。苏格拉底的临终哲学遗言确立了哲学与人的死亡不可分割的关系,后世哲学家对遗言的接受及对苏格拉底之死的思索,使哲学成为"死的哲学"。这种受死控制的哲学基于古希腊的死亡观。要使哲学摆脱死亡的控制,必须依据其他的死亡观,即基督教的死亡观。即使克服了死亡的控制,哲学本身的死亡也在所难免,因为哲学终究是极少数人的事情。

Philosophy has ever been in a dangerous condition.It means philosophy is always confronted with the threat of death.The last philosophical words of Socrates determine the solid relation between philosophy and death.Later philosophers accept Socrates words and ponder the death of Socrates.That makes philosophy as a'philosophy of death'.The philosophy controlled by death is based on the ancient Greeks concept of death.With the aim of freeing philosophy from the control of death,it needs other concept of death,that is the Christian concept of death.Because philosophy is a thing of few people,even if the control of death can be conquered,the death of philosophy itself is hard to avoid.