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论《周易》与中国文化轴心期大转型上

时间:2021-10-01 10:30:10 社会文化论文 我要投稿

论《周易》与中国文化轴心期大转型(上)

提 要:中国文化形态在轴心期发生了第一次大转型:由神学文化形态转变为世俗文化形态。这次转型确立了作为人文主义精华的心学传统,这是今天现代化的宝贵精神资源;但同时也逐渐失落了作为“第一实体”的个体精神,这是与现代性相悖逆的。这次转型经过三个阶段(西周、春秋、战国),而《周易》文本正是其经典表征:《易经》观念是其发端,《左传》筮例是其发展,《易传》思想是其完成。唯其如此,《周易》后来成为中国群经之首、百行之源。

关键词:周易;左传;中国文化;轴心时期;文化转型

On the Book of Change

And the Great Transformation of Chinese Culture in Axial Period

Abstract: A great transformation from theological type to secular type took place in Axial Period of Chinese culture. The transformation set up ‘mindology’ as humanistic tradition, which is now one of the precious resources for modernization. Nevertheless, it made us lost the individual spirits as ‘primary substance’, the consequences of which are contradictory to modernity. The great transformation had undergone three phases, the classical representation of which just was the conditions about the texts of the Book of Change as follows. Its start was the ideas in the Yi&n bsp;Classic (during the Western Zhou Dynasty), its development was the explanation to the milfoil-divination in the Zuo Commentary (during the Spring and Autumn Period), and its completion was the thoughts in the Yi Commentary (during the Warring States). Precisely because these above, the Book of Change became afterwards the leader of all the classics and the resource of all the behaviors.

Key Words: the Book of Change; the Zuo Commentary; Chinese culture; the Axial Period; transformation of culture

众所周知,中国文化在“轴心时期”、即西周、春秋、战国时期[1]曾发生过一次大转型;但是,关于这次转型与《周易》[2] 之间的关联、尤其是其现代意义,我们还不是十分清楚,这正是本文试图探讨的问题。

一.作为分析方法的基本观念

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