《老子》、《周易》“道”、“器”观管窥

On the Differences Between the concepts of"Universal Noumenon"and"Factitious Things"in Laozi and Zhouyi

《周易》、《老子》都是儒道文化的元典 ,二书有关“道”、“器”关系的论析更是儒道文化中心的中心、关键的关键。《易》、《老》二书都是将宇宙三分的 :无形之道、有形之物、人为之器。它们一个对“器”是肯定的 ,一个对“器”是否定的 ;一个主张与自然并列 ,另外创造一个与自然同等辉煌的世界 ;一个主张向自然归依 ,实现与自然的兀然同化。

The thoughts about relationships between the universal noumenon and the factitious,which is expounded in Zhouyi and Laozi,are the center of the Confucian and Tao culture.In both Zhouyi and Laozi the universe is divided into three parts:the universal noumenon,the unartificial things which include the nature and the human,and the factitious things which are glorified in the former work and denied in the latter one.It is insisted in Laozi that the human should return to the nature,to the original purity and simplicity,in Zhouyi that the human should recreate another kind of landscape which is as brilliant as the natural one.