Tuesday, November 4, 2008

西方哲学之道路 The Journal of the Western Philosophy

西方哲学之道路分为天人合一、理想主义和生活世界三个阶段。
天人合一:包括亚理斯多德在内,一般认为泰勒斯是希腊首个哲学家。泰勒斯尝试找出对世界的自然的解释,而不需要指向超自然。他相信世上包括人类在内的万物有共同点,它们相连于‘一’。对他而言,这个‘一’就是‘水’。在他以后的哲学家都提出了相似观点,虽然他们所指的‘一’是不同的东西。
理性主义:苏格拉底和柏拉图对他们以前的哲学家对世界本质提出自相矛盾的解释和学说深感幻灭。柏拉图把注意力转移到研究人类获取知识能力。他认定世上有永恒和普世的知识,靠人类用推理就能掌握的。由此所导致的西方理性主义在促进西方科学和科技的发达扮演了重要的角色。
有人说十七世纪所创造的现代科学,解决了对世界性质的认识。但是,我们还没有解决人在世上的位置和人类文明行为的问题。这就令我们的处境更加危险。
生活世界:1936 年胡塞尔提出‘生活世界’的概念,强调人类紧密的套入现实实体之中。生命世界是人类分析、沟通和社交于多个区域的社会、政治、历史和文化环境。
海德格尔更提出‘人在世界中’的概念来清晰阐明它是归一的现象,须要从整体来看。就是说人类需要融入和沉浸入物质的、实体的日常世界中。
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The journal of the Western philosophy can be divided into three significant phases of Oneness, Rationalism and Life-world.
Oneness: Many, most notably Aristotle, regard Thales as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition. Thales attempted to find naturalistic explanations of the world, without reference to the supernatural. He believed that there was a basic similarity between all things, including human being, in the world. They are all related to each other by the One. The One, to him was Water. Philosophers after him offered similar explanations of the world, although their Oneness pointed to different things.
Rationalism: Socrates and Plato were disillusioned by the conflicting answers and theories put forward by philosophers before them regarding the nature of world. Plato shifted his attention to study man’s ability to acquire knowledge. He was convinced that there are unchanging and universal truths, which human reason is capable of grasping. This line of thinking resulted in Western rationalism that plays a significant role in facilitating the advancement of sciences and technologies in the West.
It is said that the creation of modern science in the seventeenth century has solved the problem of learning about the nature of the universe. But we have yet to solve the problems of man’s place in it and learning how to become civilized. This would put us in a situation of great danger.
Life-world: Husserl introduced the concept of life-world 1936 to stress the solidness of the human encapsulation in reality. The life-world is a social, political, historical, and cultural environment where human beings interpret, communicate, and socially engage in multiple communal spheres.
Heidegger articulated it with the notion of ‘Being-in-the-world’, which stands for a unitary phenomenon and needs to be seen as a whole. That means to be human is to be embedded and immersed in the physical, tangible day to day world.

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