春秋以前的天概念

在中国古代哲学的研究中,学界一般认为天概念在春秋以前是单纬度的,即宗教之天。事实上,夏朝和商朝的天概念是宗教之天,但从周朝开始不再是单维的宗教之天,而是同时兼具了宗教之天与自然之天这两种内涵。这给春秋以降各个思想家从不同侧面出发对天概念进行迥异的具体阐释奠定了思想基础。只有弄清了这一点,才能对中国古代哲学的基本问题即天人关系问题有符合本初意义的理解。

The Concept of the Heaven before the Spring and Autumn Period

In the study of ancient Chinese philosophy,scholars generally considered that the concept of heaven was a single latitude before the Spring and Autumn Period,namely Tian in religrom.In fact,the concept of heaven was a single latitude in the Xia Dynasty and Shang Dynasty,but from the Zhou Dynasty,the concept was not only Tian in religion or nature,but both of the two connotations.This suggestted the ideological foundation to thinkers after the Spring and Autumn Period,while they explained the concept from different angles specifically.Only clarified this point,we could undersand the basic problem in the ancient Chinese philosophy of relations between heaven and people originally.