天道与人道的贯通——从周敦颐的易学观看宋明理学的逻辑起点

Link of the Tai -chi and Human Mind: Analyzing the Logical Beginning of Neo-Confucianism from Zhou Dunyi's View of Changes

宋初,周敦颐著《太极图说》与《通书》,通过对《周易》阴阳哲学原理的阐发,并结合儒家人文主义价值理想,推《周易》为“性命之源”,进而提出一个与佛老相抗衡的宇宙生成论。在这一思想体系中,周敦颐教人从太极到立人极至最后成圣,力图沟通天道之理与人心性命,为宋明理学的心性修养论哲学建立了一个形而上的理论起点,不仅把儒学的发展向前推进了一步,而且回应了佛老二教的诘难。周敦颐的思想文章中也称为其易学观。

At the beginning of Song Dynasty, Zhou Dunyi presented a new cosmologic theory, which is different from Buddhism and Taoism in his great works Tai-Ji Tu and Tun Shu. Under the reinterpretation about the Ying-yang in Book of Changes, together with the formal Confucius idealism, Zhou considered the Book of Changes as the beginning of 'Ying-Ming' thought. From Tai-chi to Ren-chi, finally to Confucian Sage, Zhou managed to link the Tai-chi with human mind, to find a Meta-philosophical basement for Neo-Confucianism. In this article, Zhou's thoughts can be called 'Zhou's View of Changes'.