hongkongbookclub27june2008

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1、HONGKONGBOOKCLUB27JUNE2008THEZHONGYONG中庸:FOCUSINGTHEFAMILIARROGERT.AMES安樂哲CUHK/UNIVERSITYOFHAWAI’II.TakingStock:Wherearewetoday?1.Chinaisrising.Fromincreasingeconomicandpoliticalpowertoculturalinfluence.2.Wecannotoverestimatethepowerofwealth:Shanghai3.2015:US,EU,PRC4.OED:theword“Chinese”as“fortun

2、ecookie”5.InternationalizingChineseculture:ConfuciusInstitutesandBeiwai北外experience6.TryingtotakeChinesephilosophyonitsownterms.Interpretiveasymmetry:“shoehorning”鞋拔子.ItsencounterwithWesternphilosophyisNOTitsdefiningmoment.7.QianMu錢穆:WhatdoesChineseculturebringtothetable?孝，禮，仁，義，恕，天langue/paroleI

3、I.InterpretingChineseCulture:WhatChinaisNOT.1.Recentarchaeologicalfinds2.Europe’sChristianized“interpretation”ofChina:tian天“Heaven,”yi義”righteousness,”dao道“theWay,”li禮“ritual,”ren仁“benevolence,”li理“principle”3.Orientalismasacorrective:despotic,mystical,backward,occult,collective,pagan4.BarnesandN

4、oble,Borders:“EasternReligions”5.Westernacademy:Chinesephilosophyisnot“philosophy”—taughtinreligion/Asianstudiesdepartments6.MarcelGranet:“ChinesewisdomhasnoneedfortheideaofGod.”7.TangJunyi唐君毅：中國民族無含超絕意義的天的觀念。中國人對天有個普遍的觀點：就是天與地是分不開的。“TheChineseasapeoplehavenotembracedaconceptof“Heaven(tian)”thath

5、astranscendentmeaning.ThepervasiveideathatChinesehavewithrespecttotianisthatitisinseparablefromtheworld.”8.A.C.Graham:“IntheChinesecosmosallthingsareinterdependent,withouttranscendentprinciplesbywhichtoexplainthemoratranscendentoriginfromwhichtheyderive....Anoveltyinthispositionwhichgreatlyimpres

6、sesmeisthatitexposesapreconceptionofWesterninterpretersthatsuchconceptsasTian“Heaven”andDao“Way”musthavethetranscendenceofourownultimateprinciples;itishardforustograspthateventheWayisinterdependentwithman.”41.JosephNeedham:“ChineseidealsinvolvedneitherGodnorLaw....Thusthemechanicalandthequantitat

7、ive,theforcedandtheexternallyimposed,wereallabsent.ThenotionofOrderexcludedthenotionofLaw.”I.TakingChinesecultureonitsownterms1.Pope:“Whatcanwereasonbutfromwhatweknow.”2.Thoreau:“Wetrackourselvesthroughlife’snarrative”