中西哲理文字的可译性

中西哲学文献之间的翻译一直是困扰学术界的一个难题,这种不同语言之间的“不可译性”给不同学术传统之间的相互理解造成了巨大障碍。我们首先应该区分“可译”和“(意指的)可确定”,翻译的不可确定性并不会导致翻译的不可能性;其次,我们要区分那些待翻译文本中比较可确定其意义与比较不可确定其意义的部分;最后,在哲学文本的翻译上,我们应倡导多种译法并存的学术风格。

The Translatability of Chinese and Western Philosophical Written Language

The academia has been puzzled by the translation problems between Chinese and western philosophical literature.Sometimes different languages are beyond translatability and this forms a barrier in understanding different academic traditions.Firstly,we should distinguish "translatability" and(significative) definability "and the indefinability will not lead to impossibility in translation;secondly,we should differentiate those parts whose meaning is relatively definite and those whose is relatively indefinite;finally,as for those philosophical texts,we propose an academic style of pluralistic translation methods.