智者乐水:早期儒家传统中的智慧观

儒家关于智慧的理解对中国人的生活之道产生了长远而全面的影响,同时也为中国哲学与宗教的“智慧型传统”做出了独特的贡献。从比较哲学的角度,通过解读先秦儒家知与智、智与德、智与乐、智与水等多维度的内涵,可以看到儒家智慧观不仅仅是一种对日常生活有用的箴言集合,而且是关于宇宙、历史、社会和人性的道德形上学的一部分,同时也是关于人超越自身局限,获得理想人格的一种阐释。

The Man of Wisdom Delights in Water:Wisdom in the Early Confucian Tradition

The Confucian understanding of wisdom has a long and sweeping influence over the Chinese way of life, and makes a distinctive contribution to the distinctiveness of Chinese religions as religions of wisdom. To understand the distinctive-ness, we must fully comprehend the early Confucian understanding of wisdom in Confucian classics in terms of comparative philosophy. By clarifying the multi - dimensional connotation of knowledge and wisdom, wisdom and virtue, wisdom and joy, wisdom and water, we appreciate that Confucian wisdom is not only a collection of proverbs useful for daily life, but also part of its metaphysical and ethical view of the universe, history, society and humanity, and provides an illustration of how humans can transcend their limitation and attain to the ideal.