中国传统哲学之“虑”的思想方式

受西方哲学的影响,在当代中国人的观念中,哲学就是“思的事情”,“思”是思想活动的唯一方式。“思”确是西方哲学的思想方式,但并不是人类唯一的思想方式。对于中国传统哲学来说,哲学的思想方式不是“思”而是“虑”。“虑”的思想活动在针对的问题的性质、问题发生的根源以及问题的诉求等方面都与“思”的思想活动有着根本的区别。

Thinking vs "Worrying" in Chinese Traditional Philosophy

Influenced by Western philosophy,come contemporary Chinese believe that philosophy is "a matter of thinking" and "thinking" is the only mode to form ideas."Thinking" is really a Western philosophy way of having ideas but it is not the only way how human being "thinking".According to the Chinese traditional philosophy,"worrying" is the major way of forming ideas,which aims at questioning nature of the problem,causes of the problem and solution of the problem.Thus,"worrying" has great differences from merely "thinking".