良知、自然与科学之争:20世纪中国哲学的精神趋向
作者简介:贡华南,华东师范大学中国现代思想文化研究所/哲学系教授(上海 200241)
摘要: 作为20世纪中国哲学的关键词,科学、良知、自然各自的推崇者之间既有论争,又彼此吸取,相互塑造,使得三者的意义不断丰富,形成了新的科学观念、良知观念和自然观念。在这个过程中,学院派的中国哲学领域的学者透过良知、自然看科学,使科学不断良知化、自然化;良知则在与科学的论争中逐渐与之和解,而共同压制自然;自然在科学、良知的压制之下,亦不断与二者和解,进而被理解为人道出入之所由。良知、自然与科学之争是“古今中西”之争的具体表现,三者之间的张力也源源不断地拓展与丰富着中国哲学的内涵。三者之争的结果,使可信者可爱,可爱者可信,一定程度上化解了困扰中国学人百年之久的“可爱”与“可信”之间的紧张关系,把20世纪中国哲学推向新的境界,也为化解科学主义与人文主义的对立贡献了中国智慧。总结良知、自然与科学之争,不仅有助于深刻理解与把握20世纪中国哲学的丰富内涵,亦将裨益于21世纪中国哲学的新开展。
Controversy among Conscience, Nature and Science:The Spiritual Tendency of Chinese Philosophy in the 20th Century
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2021-04-20
Abstract: As the key words of Chinese philosophy in the 20th century, the admirers of science, conscience, and nature not only argued, but also learned from each other and shaped each other, which made the meaning of the three constantly enriched and formed three new concepts. In this process, Chinese philosophical scholars look at science through conscience and nature, and make science continue to be conscience and natural; conscience gradually reconciles with science in disputes with science, and jointly suppresses nature; nature is under the suppression of science and conscience, it constantly reconciles with the two, and then is understood as the reason for the humanity. The controversy among conscience, nature and science is a concrete manifestation of the dispute between ancient and modern, Chinese and Western, and the tension among the three has continuously expanded and enriched the connotation of Chinese philosophy. The result of the three disputes made the believable be lovely and the beloved believable. To a certain extent, it resolved the tension between the believable and the beloved that had plagued Chinese scholars for a century, and pushed Chinese philosophy in the 20th century. To a new realm has also contributed Chinese wisdom to resolve the opposition between scientism and humanism. Summarizing the controversy among conscience, nature and science will not only help profoundly understand and grasp the rich connotations of Chinese philosophy in the 20th century, but will also benefit the new development of Chinese philosophy in the 21st century.