On the Differences of Early Utopian Visions Between China and Western Society

Utopian visions between China and Western society differed in their early stage. Words reflecting early Chinese utopian visions scattered in many ancient classics. Most of them were general depiction of an ideal society featured with equality, sympathy, preference for community autonomy and the social order ＂the whole world as one community＂. Early Western society witnessed many utopian monographs. Most of them offered detailed construction of social frame with emphasis on social function division, request for ideal authority, and property co-ownership as core of an ideal society.

文明论视域中的中西哲学及其会通

哲学具有地方性和世界性。作为文明论的现象,具体的哲学总是历史地与特定的文明形态关联在一起,它不仅出于某种文明体,而且也具有对文明体的承担意识,由此可以构筑一种具有历史纵深和文明厚度的哲学概念。与纯而又纯地追求彻底形式化的哲学相比,文明论的哲学可以说是一种"厚的哲学"。正是这种"厚的哲学",在普遍同质化的世界进程愈来愈深入的过程中,承担着世界的多样化与丰富性,为不同形态的哲学提供了合法性。中西哲学的交遇作为人类文明的重要事实之一,必然导致二者之间的会通,会通的形式有三种:以普遍同质化世界进程为基础,建立与之相应的面向人类共同境况与问题的"大哲学"或"世界哲学";通过学习他者、吸纳他者而丰富自身,以绕道他者的方式重建自身;以哲学游牧者的姿态在不同哲学与文明之间自由穿行,从而解除哲学与特定文明的具体捆绑,建立二者之间流动性的自由关联。