道家还原论宇宙观中的谬论 — 以老庄思想和《黄帝内经》为中心的分析 (Reductionist Mis-takes on the Dao — How Laozi, Zhuangzi, and the Yellow Emperor’s Medical Canon Explained Reality)

23 Pages Posted: 22 Aug 2018 Last revised: 24 Jun 2023

Date Written: August 9, 2018

Abstract

Chinese Abstract: 春秋时期老子著《道德经》一书以完满整体论思想来解释世界开创了道家学派,该书的内涵与《周易》关系密切。在接下来的几百年里也出现了像《庄子》和《黄帝内经》这样的道家经典著作来解释人类动态与健康,也拥有道家一致逻辑整体论的角度。而后来随着儒家的壮大,佛教的传入和兴起都对道家思想进行了强烈的冲击,因而误会了上古时期的这三部道家经典的内涵。这导致了后来学者没能很好的了解道家整体论的智慧。为了解决现代社会因还原论面临的问题,包括理科传统物理与量子物理的冲突,文科社会群体跟个体利益的冲突,当代学者们一直在追求融合整体论这样一种很完整的理论。对此,道家阴阳平衡,注重归一与无的方法提供了一个很好的答案,让我们发现更多的可能性。

English Abstract: During the Spring and Autumn period, Laozi’s Dao De Jing offered a holistic explanation of reality and began what has become the Daoist school. This text’s approach relied in part on the earlier influential divination work Zhouyi. In the following centuries, the additional Daoist classics Zhuangzi and the Yellow Emperor’s Medical Canon also appeared, employing Daoism’s holistic perspective to human activity and health. Following this early period, however, the growth of Confucianism and the rise of Buddhism had a strong impact on Daoism and these three ancient Daoist classics came to be misinterpreted. The outside commentaries on these three classics then caused many later scholars to misunderstand the import of Daoism’s holistic wisdom. In modern times, faced with the problems of reductionist thinking, including the conflict between classical physics and quantum physics in the natural sciences as well as the conflict between the public good and private interests in the humanities, scholars have been searching for a comprehensive theory of reality. Daoism’s original emphasis on a harmonious balance along with a return to the One and finally the Dao provides a compelling answer, and can help us resolve these problems.

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Keywords: 道家经典著作, 宇宙学形而上, 整体论, 道学思想史, 还原论。

Suggested Citation

Pratt, Joseph, 道家还原论宇宙观中的谬论 — 以老庄思想和《黄帝内经》为中心的分析 (Reductionist Mis-takes on the Dao — How Laozi, Zhuangzi, and the Yellow Emperor’s Medical Canon Explained Reality) (August 9, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3229541 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3229541

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