《易经》与毕达哥拉斯学派数理观比较

通过对比《易经》与毕达哥拉斯学派数理观之异同,考察中西方思想起源的分歧.分析认为,虽然二者对于数的性质看法有所不同,但是都主张数的性质存在于单纯的感性事物之外,且是感性事物与理念的中介;二者均将数及数理作为认识世界的手段或方法论工具.分析结果表明,在早期思想形成的原点,中西方文化均是共通的,正是在从原始自然崇拜、宗神到思想萌芽的过程中,东方的“绝地天通”与西方的“沉思”使得中西方思想文化逐渐分野.

Comparison of mathematical views from I-Ching and Pythagorean school

By comparing the views on mathematics from I-ching and Pythagorean school, this paper examines the divergence of the origins of Chinese and western thoughts. It is believed that although Pythagorean school and I-ching view the properties of numbers differently, they both claim that the prop- erties of numbers exist outside the perceptual world and the numbers are the agents between thoughts and existence. Both regard mathematics as an indispensable tool for human beings to understand the world The results show that in the early period of the formation of thoughts, there is a common historical origin between Chinese and western culture. It is during the transformation from nature worship to original religions that the eastern view of isolation of heaven and earth and the western view of mediation lead to a gradual division of Chinese and Western thoughts.