外语教育与人文精神培育

Foreign Language Education and the Cultivation of Human Spirits

本文探讨的是外语教育与人文精神之间的本质关系。首先以"语言是工具"为问题,从哲学诠释学的语言视角质疑并否定该论断,同时提出一个前提:语言,作为人的存在方式语言,是其本质,它决定了语言具有传承和教化功能、团结与凝聚功能、情感培育功能和构建蓝图功能。然后,从现代大学的职能视角提出另外一个前提:大学的基本职能之一是文化传授,也就是人文精神的培育,语言的功能决定了语言是大学职能实现的必要条件。在这两个前提下,外语教学的本质是由语言的诸功能所决定,即以文化传授为目标的、以人的教育为潜在目的的活动,简而言之,是以人文精神培育为目的的外语教育,从而,使外语教学走出外语是工具的误区。

The article examines the nature of the relationship between foreign language education and the cultivation of the human spirits. The article refutes the doctrine of languageas-instrument and proposes that the nature of language is the being of human existence from the perspective of philosophical hermeneutics. The nature of language from this perspective determines the functions of language as tradition-carrying and cultivation, unification, emotion-fostering and reconstruction. The second proposition of this article is that the basic function of the university is cultural development, namely the development of the human spirits. Thus the function of language becomes an important way for the realization of the function of the university.